The first story takes place in February 1945 in Budapest. In the basement of one of the houses, a platoon commander named Kapustin — a former circus performer — meets a Hungarian actor who doesn't speak Russian. Yet they quickly find a common language. The clown Karandash appears in the story. The second story is about a grandmother who didn’t like the circus, but went there for the sake of her grandson…
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| MMansur ShirvaniNot listed | Not listed |
| VVyacheslav TroyanNot listed | Not listed |
 Nikolai KarnaukhovNot listed | Not listed |
 Zoya VasilkovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Georgi MillyarNot listed | Not listed |
 Yuri ChekulayevNot listed | Not listed |
 Yakov SegelNot listed | Not listed |
 Vladimir NosikNot listed | Not listed |
 Andrey MironovNot listed | Not listed |
 Aleksandr GraveNot listed | Not listed |
 Lyubov DobrzhanskayaNot listed | Not listed |
 Liliya AleshnikovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Mark PertsovskiyNot listed | Not listed |
 Georgi TusuzovNot listed | Not listed |
 Galina BulkinaNot listed | Not listed |
 Andrei GusevNot listed | Not listed |
| IIrina VolkovaNot listed | Not listed |
| YYuri ArkhiptsevNot listed | Not listed |