
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

as Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin

as Nina

as Yuri Stroganov

as Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater

as Pasha Rubtsov

as Rubtsova

as Vyacheslav

as Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin

as Woman with clocks

as Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper

as Narrator (voice), screenwriter

as Commander

as Usman Yusupov, secretary of the Central Committee


