The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
Lyosha
Borik
Aleksandr Buntsevich
Engineer Kovalyov
Trofim Ivanovich, miller
Zosya
Engineer Rostovtsev
Mother
Bobrik
Marina Buntsevich