A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

Vladimir Korolyov
as Private Aleksei

Mikhail Buturlov
as Private Nazarka

Artyom Leshchik
as Non-Commissioned Officer Makar Petrovich

Danil Tyabin
as Soldier-Sanitarian

Sergei Goncharenko
as Lieutenant

Filipp Dyachkov
as Soldier-Agitator

Sergei Bratkov
as

Anton Samusik
as

Dmitri Volf
as

Evgeniy Sirotin
as