Yevgeni Matveyev as Zakhar Deryugin

Zinaida Kirienko as Efrosinya Deryugina

Olga Ostroumova as Manya Polivanova

Yuriy Yakovlev as Tikhon Bryukhanov, regional committee secretary

Valeriya Zaklunnaya as Katerina Deriugina, Bryukhanov's wife

Stanislav Chekan as Pavel Koshev, chairman of the district executive committee

Roman Filippov as Baturin

German Kachin as cowardly soldier

Georgiy Yumatov as Pekarev

Algimantas Masiulis as Zolding, sturmbannführer

Nikolai Smirnov as one-armed policeman

Georgi Lapeto as Russian soldier (uncredited)

Aleksei Kovalyov as German tanker (uncredited)