"Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland."
Stefaniya Stanyuta
as Darya
Lev Durov
as Pinegin
Aleksey Petrenko
as Voronzov
Yuri Katin-Yartsev
as Bogodul
Maya Bulgakova
as Nastasya
Leonid Kryuk
as Petrukha
Vadim Yakovenko
as Andrei
Naidan Gendunova
as Tungus Woman
Denis Luppov
as Kolya
Galina Dyomina
as Sima
Lyubov Malinovskaya
as Liza
Nadezhda Pogorishnaya
as Daria's Friend
Lyudmila Polyakova
as Vera Nosareva
Igor Bezyaev
as Member of the Fire Brigade
Mikhail Bychkov
Fyodor Valikov
as Yakov
Pavel Kormunin
as Egor
Yelena Sanko
as School Principal
Irina Brazgovka
as Dancing Woman
Aleksei Goryachev
as Worker
Lidiya Savchenko
as Sonya
Mikhail Kalinkin
as Man on the All-terrain Vehicle
Kapitolina Ilyenko
as (uncredited)
Nikolai Skorobogatov
as
Valentina Berezutskaya
Elem Klimov
Director
Larisa Shepitko
Writer
German Klimov
Rudolf Tyurin
Valentin Rasputin
Novel
Boris Vengerovsky
Sound
Valeriya Belova
Editor
Alexey Rodionov
Director of Photography
Sergey Taraskin
Alfred Schnittke
Original Music Composer
Viktor Petrov
Production Design
Yuri Skhirtladze
Vyacheslav Artyomov
Co-Director