Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
Evgeniy Samoylov
as Writer
Vova Goncharov
as Sashko
Yevhen Bondarenko
as Father
Зинаида Кириенко
as Mother
Борис Андреев
as Platon
Иван Переверзев
as construction manager
Iya Marks
as probaba
Grigori Zaslavets
as Savka
Владимир Гусев
as Kolodub
Anatoli Yushko
as Drobot
Вячеслав Воронин
as Troyanda
Иван Жеваго
as father Kirill
