A former boxing champion returns to his native town and takes to drink, but finds the strength to stop: he marries and gets a job at a factory. During perestroika he joins the democratic movement. The authorities declare him a rapist.
Gerasim Dyagilev
Timofey Shuntikov
Gera Dyagilev's mother
Konstantin Levshin
Lena
Efim Osipov
Katya
Ksyusha
Volodya Timokhin
Yulya
«chemist»
foreman
Sima
Zhenya
Vladimir Nikolaevich - writer
Lyosha - historian
Vitaliy Semyonovich Glagoltsev
Martynyuk
Orekhov
Gera Dyagilev as a child
Gera Dyagilev's father
Tima Shuntikov as a child
Lena in childhood
Kostya Levshin as a child
Natalya is Lena's mother
Yuriy is Lena's father
Nastya
Sergey
Vasiliy
Vera is Lyonya's wife
Nina Mikhaylovna Kubitskaya
porter at the railway station