The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.

Oleksandr Hai
as Mikhailo Kotsyubynskiy

Yuri Demich
as Yuri Kotsiubynsky

Aleksei Loktev
as Vitaliy Prymakov

Boryslav Brondukov
as Nicholas II

Mikhail Volkov
as Aleksandr Kerenskiy

Sergei Ivanov
as Pavlo Tychyna

Yaroslav Gelias
as Ivan Franko

Afanasi Kochetkov
as Maksim Gorky

Vladimir Tatosov
as Yakov Sverdlov

Arkadiy Troshchanovskiy
as Vladimir Lenin