A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …
as Sergei Rakitin
as Nina
as Zhenya Rumyantseva
as Anna Samokhina
as Katya
as Oska
as officer
as Lyubov Kulchitskaya
as Katya's mother
as Dusya
as Tridesyatov's guest
as Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov
as Katya's fiance
as Sergei's mother
as sailor
as Yenyutin
as switchwoman
as Tridesyatov
as doctor
as Nina's father
as waitress (uncredited)
as switchwoman (uncredited)
as host of the competition (uncredited)
