During the flight, the hero of the film, the boxing champion, recalls his life's journey. The hero’s childhood was in the first post-war years. He grew up without a father, his mother was busy with work, his older brother was in prison, the relationship with the new stepfather did not work out, and the boy was brought up on the street. There he learned to fight, and this led him to the boxing ring. Over time, the stubborn street boy became the champion of Europe.
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Lyuba, Viktor's mother
Nikolai Rybnikov
as Fyodor Ivanovich
Oleg Borisov
as Stepan Yegorovich
Aleksandr Kharashkevich
as Viktor Krokhin at 9 years old
Viktor Poluektov
as Viktor Krokhin at 13 years old
Mikhail Terentyev
as Viktor Krokhin at 25 years old
Lev Lemke
as Igor Vasilyevich
Antonina Bogdanova
as Viktor's grandmother
Aleksandr Pashutin
as Sergei Andreyevich
Vladimir Zamanskiy
as Stanislav Aleksandrovich