Overview
In this drama with socio-political nuances, a heroic engineer is able to save the passengers on his train from injury or death by sacrificing his own life when his locomotive crashes. An investigator Ermakov and journalist Malinin are both involved in the story of the crash but from two different angles: the investigator wants to find out why it happened, the journalist wants to laud the heroism of the dead engineer.
Cast
- Oleg Borisov as Ermakov, an investigator
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Malinin, a journalist
- Mikhail Gluzskiy as Panteleyev
- Nina Ruslanova as Maria Ignatyevna
- Lyudmila Zaytseva as Timonina
- Nikolai Skorobogatov as Golovanov
- Pyotr Kolbasin as Gubkin
- Iosif Ryklin as doctor
- Nikolai Simkin
- Aleksandra Kharitonova