| Lyudmila Gurchenko | ... | Vera | |
| Oleg Basilashvili | ... | Platon Sergeyevich | |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | |||
| Nonna Mordyukova | ... | Uncle Misha | |
| Mikhail Kononov | |||
| Anastasiya Voznesenskaya | |||
| Aleksandr Shirvindt | |||
| Tatyana Dogileva | |||
| Olga Volkova | |||
| Raisa Etush | |||
| Temur Yunusov | |||
| Anatoliy Skoryakin | |||
| Stanislav Sadalskiy | |||
| Alla Budnitskaya | (as A. Budnitskaya) | ||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Zhanna Aleksandrova | |||
| I. Bargi | |||
| Viktor Bortsov | |||
| Anna Frolovtseva | |||
| Tatyana Ignatova | (as T. Ignatova) | ||
| I. Komarova | |||
| A. Konyashin | |||
| P. Kuznetsov | |||
| Grigory Mikhaylov | |||
| Nina Palladina | ... | Angry woman at market (as N. Palladina) | |
| Aleksandr Pyatkov | |||
| Andy Rabinovich | |||
| Eldar Ryazanov | ... | Railroad Supervisor | |
| Maxim Segal | ... | Passenger (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Eldar Ryazanov | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Emil Braginskiy | writer | |
| Eldar Ryazanov | writer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Andrei Petrov | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Vadim Alisov | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Valeriya Belova | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Aleksandr Borisov | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Edit Priede | |||
Sound Department | |||
| Oleg Zilberstein | .... | sound | |
Music Department | |||
| Sergey Skripka | .... | conductor | |
| Full cast and crew | Company credits | IMDb Romance section |
| IMDb Soviet Union section |
I keep this movie on the top of my favorite Soviet movies. Typical Russian dark humor and sharply piercing plots, right into heart of human love.
No other director has done so well in the balancing popularity and literary art. The beauty is plain, but keeps coming back to your memory.
I grow up in China but and this title is imprinted into my memory of the wandering time, a seemingly peaceful time, with undercurrent of our human fates in the vast system, and hence the life without a border.
Centrel Russia ( west Siberia) has never been so vivid, and never be so warm. It requires some traveling in the vast inland to fully understand the beauty.