

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation he quits his job and flies back to Moscow. There all his vast efforts to win her back seem in vain...
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Cast

Kirill Pirogov
Олег Чагин

Polina Kutepova
Зина Прищепкина

Stanislav Govorukhin
Зосима Петрович (руководитель "Газпрома", шеф Чагина)

Natalya Rassiyeva
Lena

Sergey Shvydkoy
friend of Oleg Chagin

Leonid Yarmolnik
Гоша

Oleg Basilashvili
Professor Savitsky

Ivan Ryzhov
Timofeich

Gennadiy Nazarov
Vadik

Irina Shelamova
Lariska

Olga Mashnaya
Nurse

Galina Petrova
Klavdiya Klimova
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