

"A soldier by duty, a father by love."
When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him. However, unknown to him, his son has been sent back to the front. Reluctant to return home and in a vain attempt to locate his boy, Georgy joins the Red Army in it's unrelenting push to the west.
Giorgiy Makharashvili

Senior sergeant Nikiforov
Arkadiy Ershov, soldier

Nikolay Nazarov, soldier

Grisha, soldier

Vova, soldier
Accordionist

Vasiliy Dmitrievich, boy on the cart

Sailor without legs

Mariya, Georgiy's wife

Hospital registrar

General

Devushka-boets

Colonel

Woman with children, Vasiliy's mama

Musician

Georgiy's fellow villager

Foreman, tankman

Oboist

Goderdzi Makharashvili, Georgy's son
Episodic role

Episodic role
Borya's grandma

Lieutenant

Georgiy's fellow villager

Episodic role
Episodic role
Surgeon

Borya
Georgiy's fellow villager
Georgiy's fellow villager
wounded soldier

tankman
tankman

Seryogin, tankman
