
A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …
Sergei Rakitin

Nina

Zhenya Rumyantseva

Anna Samokhina

Katya

Oska
officer
Lyubov Kulchitskaya

Katya's mother

Dusya

Tridesyatov's guest
Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov

Katya's fiance

Sergei's mother

sailor

Yenyutin
switchwoman

Tridesyatov

doctor

Nina's father

waitress (uncredited)

switchwoman (uncredited)

host of the competition (uncredited)