The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.
Yuriy Bogolyubov
as Veselin
Andrey Fayt
as Mazelli
Grigoriy Shpigel
as Shults
Nikolai Bogolyubov
as Tinti
Nodar Shashigoglu
as Mehdi Huseynzadeh
Alasgar Alakbarov
as Ferrero
Lev Bordukov
as Karranti
Adil Isgandarov
as Rosselini
Mariya Figner
as Pepitta
Konstantin Adamov
as Veselin's Father