The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.

Mikhail Ulyanov
Ленин

Nikolai Gritsenko
Иван Шадрин

Nikolai Timofeyev
Николай Чибисов

Larisa Pashkova
Надя

Yuliya Borisova
Катя

Vera Lvova
бабушка Лиза

Ernst Zorin
Малушкин

Grigori Abrikosov
Володя

Tatyana Blazhina
мисс Фиш

Yuri Volyntsev
матрос Дымов

Vyacheslav Dugin
бывший прапорщик

Garri Dunts
Никанор

Stanislav Zhdanko
Стамескин

Viktor Zozulin
Виталий

Evgeniy Karelskikh
капитан