"A Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery."
Sergei Shevkunenko
as Misha Polyakov
Vladimir Dichkovsky
as Genka
Emmanuil Vitorgan
as Nikitsky
Viktor Sergachyov
as uncle Semyon
Natalya Chemodurova
as Misha's mother
Zoya Fyodorova
as Misha's grandmother
Leonid Kmit
as Misha's grandfather
Mikhail Golubovich
as Polevoy
Eduard Goryachiy
as Genka's father
Kuzma Kulakov
as
Vytautas Tomkus
as Bandit
Roman Filippov
as Filin
Boris Vladomirsky
as philatelist
Tamara Trushina
as Agripina Tihonovna
Igor Shulzhenko
as Slavka
Sergei Polezhayev
as Slavka's father
Galina Rogacheva
as Slavka's mother
Yuri Sidorov
as Sviridov
Vera Kuznetsova
as Mariya Gavrilovna Terentyeva
Emiliya Milton
as Podvolotskaya
Svetlana Potapchik
as Lelya Podvolotskaya
Rostislav Yankovsky
as school principal
Nikolai Kalinin
Director
Anatoli Rybakov
Screenplay
Novel
Stanislav Pozhlakov
Original Music Composer
Igor Remishevsky
Director of Photography
Yevgeniya Volkova
Editor
Yuri Albitsky
Production Design
Aleksandr Chertovich
Alla Gribova
Costume Design