Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.

• Central Television USSR
• Leningrad Television
• Efim Kopelyan
• Emma Popova
• Sergei Yursky
• Mikhail Volkov
• Alina Nemchenko
• Boris Ryzhukhin
• Georgiy Shtil
• Valentina Romanova