A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Mikhail Viktorov
Кавырля Сырлаев/ Миша Эшпай
Vladimir Gardin
Карл Францевич Виатачек
Yanina Zheymo
Анук
Boris Tenin
Горох / Цыбуля
Boris Chirkov
Head of the political education department
Fyodor Nikitin
Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy
I. Moskvin
Evgeniy Velikhov
