Overview

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him. But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.

Top Cast

Yevgeni Kindinov

Sergei Nikitin

Yelena Koreneva

Tanya

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Trumpeter

Irina Kupchenko

Lyuda

Elizaveta Solodova

Sergei's mother

Iya Savvina

Tanya's mother

Vladimir Konkin

Sergei's youngest brother

Aleksandr Zbruev

Igor Volgin

Roman Gromadskiy

Albatross

Mykola Hrynko

Vice-Admiral

Ivan Ryzhov

Vasily Vasilyevich

Aleksandr Samoylov

Sergei's middle brother