SINOPSIS
Novocherkassk, USSR, 1962. Lyudmila is a Party executive and devout communist who had fought in WWII for Stalin's ideology. Certain that her work will create a communist society, the woman detests any anti-Soviet sentiment. During a strike at the local electromotive factory, Lyudmila witnesses a laborers' piquet gunned down under orders from the government that seeks to cover up mass labor strikes in USSR. After the bloodbath, when survivors flee from the square, Lyudmila realizes her daughter has disappeared. A gaping rift opens in her worldview. Despite the blockade of the city, mass arrests, and the authorities' attempts to cover up the massacre, Lyudmila searches for her daughter. We don't know how the search will end, but realize that the woman's life won't ever be the same.
- Yuliya VysotskayaLyudmila 'Lyuda' Danilovna Semina
- Vladislav KomarovOleg Nikolaevich Loginov
- Andrey GusevViktor
- Yuliya BurovaSvetka
- Sergei ErlishLyuda's father
- Alexander MaskelyneProfessor Ovodov
- Yegor GordienkoInvestigator
- Yuri GrishinDistrict police officer Gusev
- Olga GusevaArrested girl on square
- Roman KalkaevLeonid Ilyichev
- Ksenia KomarovaTamarka
- Dmitriy KoshelevAlexander Basov, 1st Secretary of the Rostov
- Artyom KrysinBoris Semashkin
- Katherine MakarovaGirl in the crowd
- Pjotr OlevFrol Kozlov
- Anatoly PetruninGeneral of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Georgiy PipinashviliAnastas Mikoyan
- Goga PipinashviliAnastas Mikoyan
- Vyackeslav PiskarevBoris Kurochkin / Plant Director
- Oleg TsvetanovichGeneral of the Army Issa Pliev
- Olga VasilevaSaleswoman Valya