The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov

Anna Andreyevna

Tanya

Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov

Valentina Sergeyevna

Yuri Pavlov

Varvara Andreyevna

Stepanida Gavrilovna

Klyachko

Savateyev

Mariya Nikolayevna

Lvov-Shcherbatsky

frau Wilde
Siegfried
Otto

Caesar

Vovka

Gennadiy

uncle Nikolai

Kuznetsov

Galina

homeowner

traffic police inspector

traffic police inspector

truck driver
drunk driver
herr Haslinger
Brigitte

Wolfgang Walter
argentinean man

official

corporal (uncredited)

frau Haslinger (uncredited)

cook (uncredited)
Annemarie (uncredited)
Karin (uncredited)
Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)

division commissar (uncredited)

Subbotin's guest (uncredited)
