
Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.

Evgeny Mironov
Lieutenant

Valeri Ryzhakov
Nikolai

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Vaska

Oleg Korchikov

Kostiantyn Stepankov
Valentin Nevolin

Vyacheslav Kirilichev
Old man

Raisa Ryazanova

Igor Varpa

Viktor Uralsky

Aleksandr Olkov
Vera Alkhovskaya
Efim's Wife
Vasily Rybin

Nikita Tretyakov

Igor Golovin
Interpreter

Nikolai Badyev