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The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…
Algis Arlauskas
Volodya Cheremin
Marat Serazhetdinov
Victor Khantyrin
Igor Sklyar
Nikolay Maslenok
Marina Samojlova
Anya
Valeri Ryzhakov
Lt. Novikov
Mikhail Kuznetsov
midshipman Lukyanov
Vasili Lanovoy
Maj. Cheremin, Volodya's father
Boris Gitin
Chief petty officer Kotelevsky
Viktor Mizin
Sailor
Natalya Rychagova
Anya (voice)
Klavdiya Kozlyonkova
railroad worker
Heinz Braun
Episodic role
Viktor Kosykh
second lieutenant of the coast guard
Leonid Reutov
lieutenant commander
Rim Ayupov
german
Ekaterina Voronina
Boris Grigorev
Fokin, 3rd-Class Captain