The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.
Commissar Nikolai Mironovich
Gerasim Platonovich
Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna
Yegor Nechayev, her brother
Grandfather Anisim
Volodka
Farm Secretary Matveyev
Mother Platonivichna
Kostya
Petka, a boy
Villager
Villager
Nyusha
Collective farmer
Guy with accordion/Red Army Soldier
Director
Writer