Top Billed Cast

1. 

   Leonid Filatov

   Aleksei Varakin

2. 

   Oleg Basilashvili

   Vasiliy Chugunov, The Writer

3. 

   Vladimir Menshov

   Nikolay Smorodinov, The Prosecutor

4. 

   Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

   Pal Palych, the factory manager

5. 

   Aleksei Zharkov

   investigator

6. 

   Pyotr Shcherbakov

   Stepan Ivanov, chairman of the city executive committee

7. 

   Evgeniy Evstigneev

   museum curator

8. 

   Olga Konovalova

   Liza

9. 

   Yuriy Sherstnyov

   Kudryumov, waiter

10. 

    Elena Arzhanik

    Nina, secretary

11. 

    Tatyana Khvostikova

    Anna

12. 

    Alexander Bespaly

13. 

    Misak Gevorkyan

    young Stalin

14. 

    Oleg Savosin

    mushroom picker

15. 

    Lev Lugkovsky

    rock'n'roll night visitor (uncredited)