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...

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Cast

Boris Shcherbakov

Novikov

Oleg Borisov

Dronov

Galina Bulgakova

Tanya

Irina Rozanova

Larisa

Yevgeny Matveyev

father-in-law

Eduard Bocharov

Kozlov

Sergey Garmash

taxi driver

Aleksandr Feklistov

Anatoliy

Natalya Popova

Dronova

Nikolay Lavrov

chief

Marianna Strizhenova

mother-in-law

Vladimir Osipchuk

Safonov