The film is based on the early autobiographical stories of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. A bright, emotionally rich movie about the childhood of a boy from a distant Altai village, about his family — his sister and mother, about work, holidays, joys and troubles of ordinary Russian peasants during the Great Patriotic War...
as Mariya
as Vanya
as Natasha
as Pavel
as chairman
as granddad
as Klavdiya
as redheaded
as teacher
as commissioner