The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.
Михаил Ульянов
as Ленин
Николай Гриценко
as Иван Шадрин
Николай Тимофеев
as Николай Чибисов
Лариса Пашкова
as Надя
Yuliya Borisova
as Катя
Vera Lvova
as бабушка Лиза
Ernst Zorin
as Малушкин
Григорий Абрикосов
as Володя
Tatyana Blazhina
as мисс Фиш
Юрий Волынцев
as матрос Дымов
Вячеслав Дугин
as бывший прапорщик
Garri Dunts
as Никанор