The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.

Commissar Nikolai Mironovich

Gerasim Platonovich

Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna

Yegor Nechayev, her brother

Volodka

Farm Secretary Matveyev

Mother Platonivichna

Kostya
Assistant chief of the politotdel

Petka, a boy

Villager

Villager
Collective farmer

Nyusha

Collective farmer
Collective farmer
Officer
Collective farmer
Villager

Guy with accordion/Red Army Soldier