During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.
Yuri Yankin
as Vanya Solntsev
Aleksandr Morozov
as Dmitry Yenakiyev
Grigory Pluzhnik
as Vasily Bidenko
Nikolai Parfyonov
as Kuzma Gorbunov
Nikolay Yakhontov
as Yegorov
Vladimir Sinev
as Voznesensky
Pavel Volkov
as Vasily Kovalyov
Aleksandr Timontayev
as Sobolev