In this drama with socio-political nuances, a heroic engineer is able to save the passengers on his train from injury or death by sacrificing his own life when his locomotive crashes. An investigator Ermakov and journalist Malinin are both involved in the story of the crash but from two different angles: the investigator wants to find out why it happened, the journalist wants to laud the heroism of the dead engineer.
Oleg Borisov
Ermakov, an investigator
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Malinin, a journalist
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Panteleyev
Nina Ruslanova
Maria Ignatyevna
Lyudmila Zaytseva
Timonina
Nikolai Skorobogatov
Golovanov
Pyotr Kolbasin
Gubkin
Iosif Ryklin
doctor
