War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.
Юрий Никулин
as Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
Людмила Гурченко
as Nina
Алексей Петренко
as Yuri Stroganov
Ангелина Степанова
as Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater
Михаил Кононов
as Pasha Rubtsov
Екатерина Васильева
as Rubtsova
Микола Гринько
as Vyacheslav
Люсьена Овчинникова
as Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin
Лия Ахеджакова
as Woman with clocks
Людмила Зайцева
as Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper
Konstantin Simonov
as Narrator (voice), screenwriter
Юрий Соловьёв
as Commander
