Bela Frankl, a young Hungarian, is taken prisoner by Russia during the First World War, defects to the side of the revolution and some time later, under the pseudonym Mate Zalka, becomes a famous Soviet writer. In 1936, having arrived as a volunteer in Spain, he becomes General Lukacs, forms the 12th International Brigade of non-professional fighters and takes the first heavy battles with Franco's cadre formations...
András Kozák
as Zalka Máté, Lukács tábornok
Олег Вавилов
as Aljosa Eisner
Константин Захаров
as Belov
Владимир Вихров
as a fiatal Zalka
Vakhtang Kikabidze
as Durruti
Georgiy Sokolov
as Batov
István Bujtor
as Otto Flatter
