Directed by Aleksey German Starring Yuri Nikulin Yuri Nikulin - Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin, military journalist Lyudmila Gurchenko - Nina Rashid Sadykov - Usman Yusupov, secretary of the Central Committee Alexei Petrenko - Yuri Stroganov, pilot Captain Angelina Stepanova - Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater Mikhail Kononov - Pasha Rubtsov, voenkor Yekaterina Vasilyeva - Rubtsov, widow of Pasha Nikolai Grinko - Vyacheslav (voiced by Innokenty Smoktunovsky) Lyusyena Ovchinnikova - Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin Liya Akhedzhakova - woman with clocks Dmitry Bessonov - Vedeneev, Xenia's new husband Zoya Vinogradova - Vera, actress Lyudmila Zaytseva - Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper Vladimir Mishanin - soldier on the train Nikolay Mikheev - Colonel, film consultant (voiced by Igor Efimov) Yuri Soloviev - commander