"A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state."
Mikhail Viktorov
as Кавырля Сырлаев/ Миша Эшпай
Vladimir Gardin
as Карл Францевич Виатачек
Yanina Zheymo
as Анук
Boris Tenin
as Горох / Цыбуля
Boris Chirkov
as Head of the political education department
Fyodor Nikitin
as Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy
I. Moskvin
as
Evgeniy Velikhov
Leonid Kmit
as Gryaznov
Nikolai Michurin
as Ivan Nikitich Lebedev
Konstantin Nazarenko
Aleksandr Melnikov
Nikolai Valyano
Viktor Portnov
Mark Donskoy
Director
Vladimir Legoshin
Georgiy Kholmskiy
Scenario Writer
Nikolai Ushakov
Camera Operator
Grigory Lobachev
Music
Semyon Meynkin
Production Design