The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.
Larisa Luzhina
as Anna Timofeyevna
Georgi Burkov
as Aleksei Ivanovich
Oleg Orlov
as Yura
Svetlana Ponomaryova
as Nastya
Maya Bulgakova
as Kseniya Gerasimovna
Vilnis Bekeris
as Albert
Boris Grigorev
as Dronov
Sergei Novikov
as Valya
Aleksandr Kavalerov
as polizei-translator
Vladimir Gusev
as pilot