Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape.

Aleksandr Filippenko
as Leonid Zhilin, head of the hospital

Andrei Boltnev
as Alexey Danilovich Volsky, military doctor

Olga Ostroumova
as Anna Zhilina

Vasili Funtikov
as Gena Zhilin

Irina Shmeleva
as Irina Zhilina

Григорий Кочержинский
as Miron Kandel, surgeon

Aleksey Zolotnitskiy
as Strigushchenko

Евгений Шмаров
as Mikhas

Svetlana Tormakhova
as Petrykina

Alevtina Rumyantseva
as Frosya, the nurse