A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Mikhail Viktorov
Кавырля Сырлаев/ Миша Эшпай
Vladimir Gardin
Карл Францевич Виатачек
Yanina Zheymo
Анук
Boris Tenin
Горох / Цыбуля
Boris Chirkov
Head of the political education department
Fyodor Nikitin
Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy
I. Moskvin
Evgeniy Velikhov
Leonid Kmit
Gryaznov
Nikolai Michurin
Ivan Nikitich Lebedev
Konstantin Nazarenko
Aleksandr Melnikov
Nikolai Valyano
Viktor Portnov
Mark Donskoy
Director
Vladimir Legoshin
Georgiy Kholmskiy
Scenario Writer
Nikolai Ushakov
Camera Operator
Grigory Lobachev
Music
Semyon Meynkin
Production Design
