
A soldier by duty, a father by love.
When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him. However, unknown to him, his son has been sent back to the front. Reluctant to return home and in a vain attempt to locate his boy, Georgy joins the Red Army in it's unrelenting push to the west.
Sergo ZakariadzeGiorgiy MakharashviliVladimir PrivaltsevSenior sergeant Nikiforov
Aleksandr NazarovArkadiy Ershov, soldier
Aleksandr LebedevNikolay Nazarov, soldier
Vladimir KolokoltsevGrisha, soldierYuri DrozdovVova, soldier
Ivan KosykhAccordionist
Viktor KosykhVasiliy Dmitrievich, boy on the cart
Viktor UralskySailor without legs
Ketevan BochorishviliMariya, Georgiy's wife
Vladimir PitsekHospital registrar
Pyotr LyubeshkinGeneral
Tatyana ReshetnikovaDevushka-boets
Nikolai BarminColonel
Inna VykhodtsevaWoman with children, Vasiliy's mama