The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
as Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
as Anna Andreyevna
as Tanya
as Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
as Valentina Sergeyevna
as Yuri Pavlov
as Varvara Andreyevna
as Stepanida Gavrilovna
as Klyachko
as Savateyev
as Mariya Nikolayevna
as Lvov-Shcherbatsky
as frau Wilde
as Siegfried
as Otto
as Caesar
as Vovka
as Gennadiy
as uncle Nikolai
as Kuznetsov
as Galina
as homeowner
as traffic police inspector
as traffic police inspector
as truck driver
as drunk driver
as herr Haslinger
as Brigitte
as Wolfgang Walter
as argentinean man
as official
as corporal (uncredited)
as frau Haslinger (uncredited)
as cook (uncredited)
as Annemarie (uncredited)
as Karin (uncredited)
as Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
as division commissar (uncredited)
as Subbotin's guest (uncredited)
