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…

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Cast

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