Ahmad Donish, a scholar and educator, an outstanding Tajik writer and thinker of the 19th century, envoy of the Bukhara Emirate to Russia, who did much to bring the Russian and Tajik peoples closer together and to introduce progressive democratic ideas to Central Asia—the authors dedicate this film to him.
Makhmudzhan Vakhidov
as Ахмед Дониш
Абдульхайр Касымов
as Абулькасым
Ато Мухамеджанов
as Эмир Музаффар
Владлен Давыдов
as Стасов
Сергей Карнович-Валуа
as Горчаков
Пантелеймон Крымов
as Верещагин
