The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.
Олександр Гай
as Mikhailo Kotsyubynskiy
Юрий Демич
as Yuri Kotsiubynsky
Алексей Локтев
as Vitaliy Prymakov
Борислав Брондуков
as Nicholas II
Михаил Волков
as Aleksandr Kerenskiy
Сергей Иванов
as Pavlo Tychyna
Yaroslav Gelias
as Ivan Franko
Афанасий Кочетков
as Maksim Gorky
Владимир Татосов
as Yakov Sverdlov
Arkadiy Troshchanovskiy
as Vladimir Lenin
Родион Александров
as Anatoliy Lunacharskiy
Костянтин Степанков
as Symon Petliura