
Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.

Aleksandr Chichakhov
Stepan Beresekov

Innokentiy Lukovtsev
Doctor Sokolnikov
Vera Efremova
Capitolina

Darius Gumauskas
Ivan Popov
Kira Maksimova
Fomusya
Elena Markova
Fevronya

Stepan Petrov
Master

Mikhail Sazhin
Nikolay Popov

Nyurguyana Shadrina
Shaman
Natalya Sleptsova-Koryakina
Maya
Vyacheslav Yugov
Father Vasily

Stepan Poryadin
Zoya Popova
Anna Kuzmina
Dmitri Shadrin