"Siberia, 1930s. Ten-year-old Ilka runs away from home to escape his stepmother and joins a team of loggers rafting wood along the Mana River. Here, the young hero learns the dangerous trade and finds friends."
Misha Egorov
as Ilka Verstakov
Pavel Kadochnikov
as Uncle Roman
Pyotr Kadochnikov
as Isusik
Leontij Polohov
as "Frying Pan"
Vyacheslav Voskresensky
as Trifon Letyaga
Ivan Savkin
as Azariy
Andrey Torkhov
as Derikrup
Anatoliy Bystrov
as Gavrila
Yuriy Nazarov
as Verstakov, Ilka's Father
Lyubov Polekhina
as Ilka's Mother
Arina Aleynikova
as Ilka's Stepmother
Elena Melnikova
as Fesha
Vladimir Gusev
as Fesha's Husband
Bulat Mansurov
Director
Writer
Eduard Tropinin
Viktor Astafyev
Novel
Genri Abramyan
Director of Photography
Aleksei Lebedev
Production Design
Aleksandr Lunacharsky
Original Music Composer
Valentina Alexeyeva
Sound Director
Lyricist
Artur Eizen
Songs
Yuri Serebryakov
Conductor
T. Kozlova
Assistant Director
Gennadiy Amanov
Yu. Ivlev
Camera Operator
Aleksandra Zbarskaya
Costume Design
L. Savenkova
Makeup Artist
Lyubov Butuzova
Editor
Vsevolod Yakubovich
VFX Director of Photography
Irina Ivanova
VFX Artist
V. Zinchenko
First Assistant Director
Mikhail Lanchava
Second Assistant Director
Viktor Logunov
Assistant Camera
V. Popov
L. Yermakov
V. Dyachenko
Script Editor
Alexander Belyayev
Music Editor
Yu. Borisovets
Script Consultant
A. Yemelyanov
Yekaterina Solovyova
Executive Producer
Valeriy Kurakin