In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.


Nikolay Kryuchkov
Senka Kadkin

Hans Klering
Mueller, German POW

Vladimir Uralskiy
Smelchakov - cabdriver

Mikhail Zharov
Krayevitch, a student
Sergei Komarov
Alexander Petrovich Greshin