This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.

Viktor Perest-Petrenko
as Pavel Korchagin

Daniil Sagal
as

Irina Fedotova
as Tonya

Nikolai Bubnov
as Artyom Korchagin

Aleksandr Khvylia
as

Boris Runge
as

Vladimir Balashov
as

Władysław Krasnowiecki
as German Major

Anton Dunaiskyi
as Translator

Grigoriy Aronov
as