
Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site. A romantic and heroic story about the Komsomol members of the 1930s, about the fate of the generation that endured the construction of the first stage of the Moscow Metro, the war, the post-war reconstruction of the country.

Mikhail Ulyanov
Kaitanov

Pyotr Shcherbakov
Ufimtsev

Leonid Bykov
Akishin

Elina Bystritskaya
Lyolya

Lyudmila Krylova
Masha

Mikaela Drozdovskaya
Tanya

Sergei Plotnikov
uncle Seryozha

Viktor Chekmaryov
Oglotkov

Nikifor Kolofidin
general

Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
doctor

Mariya Vinogradova
Valya Kukhnarenko

Pavel Vinnik
mine's komsomol organizer
Ivan Mochalov
Maks

Yuriy Kireev
лётчик

Nonna Mordyukova
subway builder woman (uncredited)