
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)