Second half of the 1960s. Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...

Cast:Boris Shcherbakov, Oleg Borisov, Galina Bulgakova, Irina Rozanova, Yevgeni Matveyev, Eduard Bocharov,

Genre:Drama,

country:Soviet Union,

Production:Mosfilm,