The film plays one of a little-known pages of the biography of Arkady Gaidar, the young man when he was appointed commander of the detachment CHON (special-purpose parts)...
as Arkady Petrovich Golikov
as ataman Solovyov
as Pasha Nikitin
as Blacksmith
as Makar
as Fedka Ochol
as Ostapenko
as Ded nikto
as Nastya
as Evdokiya
as Arthas
as Taryka
as Rodionov
as Astanaev
as Martynov
as Tomashevsky
as executed resident of Khakassia