
Events take place in the White Sea, 1942. New recruit Andrei Bulygin is assigned as an assistant machine gunner on a small ship that delivers soldiers and weapons to the front line. On the way back, German fighters sink the ship, leaving only Andrei alive. Having got out on the ice, he enters into an unequal battle with the cold and the German pilot von Bettger attacking him from the air...

Vyacheslav Baranov
Andrey Bulygin

Georgiy Drozd
von Betger - german pilot

Eduard Bocharov
Ogorodnikov - sergeant

Nina Ruslanova
Andrey's mother

Tatyana Dogileva
Tanya - nurse

Sergei Plotnikov
Nikolaich

Viktor Miroshnichenko
wounded soldier

Elena Abalmasova
Liza
Nikolay Volkov
uncle Pantelei - soldier

Yuriy Nazarov
major

Gennadi Korolkov
red army captain

Vitaliy Grigorash

Alla Meshcheryakova
nurse

Lidiya Ezhevskaya
nurse

Valentina Khmara
nurse