"A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), famous for being the founder of field surgery."
Konstantin Skorobogatov
as Pirogov
Vladimir Chestnokov
as Ipatov
Olga Lebzak
as Bakulina
Sergei Yarov
as Skulachenko
George Gumilevsky
as Lukich
Ippolit Novsky-Semyonovsky
as Mandt
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Lyadov
Pyotr Lobanov
as Tarasov
Yakov Malyutin
as Hospital superintendent
Aleksei Dikij
as Admiral Nakhimov
Tatyana Piletskaya
as Dasha Sevastopolskaya
Andrei Kostrichkin
as The late one
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Sailor
Yevgeniya Makhankova
Editor
Yuri German
Writer
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Anatoli Nazarov
Director of Photography
Andrey Moskvin
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer