Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were shooting at unarmed peasants...

Vasile Brescanu
Ștefan Brebu

Serhii Dvoretskyi
Bachu

Valery Kvitka
Tutoveanu

Dzhemma Osmolovskaya
Luminița
Valentin Stoyanov
Macovei

Trifan Gruzin
owner of a horse cart

Konstantin Konstantinov
tavern keeper
Mefodie Apostolov
lawyer
Igor Kuleshov
major

Mihail Badiceanu
Masarescu
Sergei Yakovlev
intellectual man
Vasile Chicu
peasant

Ion Muzica
driver