Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
Leonid Bykov
Maksim Perepelitsa
Konstantin Sorokin
Sablin, Starshina
Aleksandr Borisov
Marco Muha, a friend of Kondrat Perepelitsa, postman
Mykola Yakovchenko
Kondrat Perepelitsa
Tatyana Pelttser
a neighbor of Maksim Perepelitsa
Georgiy Vitsin
Musii, an old man
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Assistant
Boris Arakelov
Grishka, a friend of Maksim Perepelitsa
