October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach St. Petersburg and achieve peace for all.
Сергей Бондарчук
as Matvey Krylov - soldat
Андрей Петров
as Ilya Sorokin - soldat
Эраст Гарин
as Jakob Hoffmann - nemetskiy soldat
Эльза Леждей
as Olga Kartseva - medsestra
Михаил Ульянов
as Yegor Mikhaylov- soldat
Мария Пастухова
as Nadezhda Krylskaya
Татьяна Доронина
as Khrista
Владимир Белокуров
as General
Олег Ефремов
as Senyka Radunskiy - dezertir i spekyulant