Hearing about the revolution in the hospital, the sailor Gulyavin goes to Petrograd, and from there with a detachment of Ukrainian volunteers he is sent to Ukraine. The troop is joined by cavalrymen under the command of the anarchist Lelka. The chief of staff, Stroyev, reproaches Gulyavin with negligence - you cannot take an untested detachment. However, the desperate courage of Lelka in battle with the White Guards gives Gulyavin not only respect for her, but love...

Yevgeny Matveyev
as Vasily Gulyavin

Vladimir Mityukov
as Mikhail Stroyev

Margarita Volodina
as Lelka

Aleksey Glazyrin
as Sonin

Ivan Pereverzev
as Rittmeister Luchitsky

Gennadi Poloka
as Zubarevich

Anatoliy Ivanov
as Traubenberg

Oleksandr Hai
as Selyaninov

Anatoliy Gorbov
as Bolgarinov

Liliya Yudina
as Nadezhda Osmolovskaya