A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
as Кавырля Сырлаев/ Миша Эшпай
as Карл Францевич Виатачек
as Анук
as Горох / Цыбуля
as Head of the political education department
as Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy
as Gryaznov
as Ivan Nikitich Lebedev
