

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

Kuzma Yastrebetsky
Wassilij Schironin

Olga Narbekova
Matwejewna, his wife (as O. Narbekova)

Yelena Maksimova
A soldier widow

Georgy Bobynin
Iwan

Emma Tsesarskaya
Wassilissa

Raisa Puzhnaya
Anna

Ivan Savelyev
Nicolai, the blacksmith

Gulya Korolyova

Inna Fyodorova
(as Inna Fedorova)
E. Safonova
Aunt Alena
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Olga Vishnevskaya, Boris Altshuler
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