A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.
as Private Aleksei
as Private Nazarka
as Non-Commissioned Officer Makar Petrovich
as Soldier-Sanitarian
as Lieutenant
as Soldier-Agitator
