

A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …

Aleksandr Zbruev
Sergei Rakitin

Yevghenia Filonova
Nina

Lyudmila Gladunko
Zhenya Rumyantseva

Tamara Syomina
Anna Samokhina

Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Katya
Vladimir Yevstafyev
Oska
Eduard Abalov
officer

Nina Agapova
Lyubov Kulchitskaya

Yelizaveta Auerbakh
Katya's mother

Aleksandra Danilova
Dusya
Valeriy Zalivin
Tridesyatov's guest

Nikolai Kryukov
Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov

Yuri Komarov
Katya's fiance

Nina Menshikova
Sergei's mother

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
sailor
Arkadi Trusov
Yenyutin

Galina Frolova
switchwoman

Viktor Khokhryakov
Tridesyatov

Yuri Chekulayev
doctor

Pavel Shpringfeld
Nina's father
Aleksey Sakharov
Bella Akhmadulina
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