A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

• Mosfilm
• Margarita Terekhova
• Ignat Daniltsev
• Larisa Tarkovskaya
• Alla Demidova
• Anatoliy Solonitsyn
• Nikolay Grinko
• Tamara Ogorodnikova
• Yuriy Nazarov