The film recreates episodes from the December Uprising of 1825. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a love story unfolds between the Decembrist Annenkov and Polina Gebl.

Vladimir Maksimov
Aleksandr I

Yevgeni Boronikhin
Nikolay I
Varvara Annenkova
Polina Gjebl

Borys Tamarin
Ivan Annenkov

Gennadi Michurin
Prince Trubetskoy
Sergei Shishko
Ryleev

Eduard Ioganson
Valentin Lebedev
Prince Obolenskiy

Ivan Khudoleyev
Yakobi, Annenkov's relative

Pyotr Andriyevsky
Tsarevich Konstantin
Pyotr Podvalniy
Aleksandr Bestuzhev
Aleksandra Gribunina
Annenkova
Konstantin Karenin
Pestel
P. Volkonskiy
Kakhovskiy
Tamara Godlevskaya
Princess Trubetskaya