Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits...

Reparto

Лев Золотухин

Афанасий Кочетков

Sergey Yeremeyev

Igor Bastrikov

Борис Ситко

Вячеслав Езепов

Anatoliy Toropov

Алексей Эйбоженко

Sergei Markushev

Svetlana Boychenko

Людмила Пашкова

Boris Telegin

Юрий Соломин

Sergei Kharchenko

Vladimir Vill

Ivan Vereisky

Aleksandr Pronin

Vladimir Kolosov

Evgeni Burenkov

Nikolai Alekseyev

Виктор Борцов

Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya

Алексей Грибов

Mikhail Zimin

Анастасия Зуева

Nikolai Kovshov

Никифор Колофидин

Людмила Кудрявцева

Mikhail Medvedev

Вячеслав Невинный

Viktor Novoselskiy

Dmitri Pavlov

Дмитрий Попов

Vladimir Privaltcev

Valiry Pushkarev

Сергей Сафонов

Konstantin Svetlov

Yevdokiya Urusova

Dmitriy Shutov

Владимир Кашпур

Anatoli Opritov

Roman Fertman

Виталий Беляков

Евгений Киндинов

Aleksey Neznamov

Nikolay Sunozov

Vasili Popov

Pyotr Kudlay