

The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
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Cast

Sergey Martynov
Andrei Kosarev

Yelena Solovey
Rita Pletnyova

Alexandre Arbat
Ladya Bragin

Yelena Shanina
Sandi

Svetlana Pereladova
Olya

Lyudmila Stoyanova
Ganka

Irina Skobtseva
Kira Viktorovna

Vladimir Valutskiy
Grisha

Gurgen Tonunts
professor Migdal

Nikolai Sergeyev
Olya's grandfather

Antonina Maksimova
Andrei's mother

Gennadi Yudin
Rita's father
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