Andrei Popov
Chehov
Anatoliy Papanov
Startsev
Nonna Terentyeva
Katya
Lidiya Shtykan
Vera Iosifovna
Igor Gorbachyov
Turkin
Aleksey Batalov
Shergov
Aleksandr Borisov
Puzyrev
Grigoriy Shpigel
lawyer Losev
Yevgeni Shutov
Panteleimon
Olga Aroseva
Maria Chekhova
Leonid Bykov
Carter
Vladimir Volchik
Drunken
Olga Gobzeva
Teacher
Liliya Gurova
Anisya
Rina Zelyonaya
Authoress
Ivan Krasko
Author
Pantelejmon Krymov
Andryusha
Vera Lipstok
Wife of a sick man
Gitana Leontenko
Street acrobat
Lyubov Malinovskaya
Anfisa
Nina Mamayeva
Puzyrev's wife
Yuri Medvedev
Doctor Sveshnikov
N. Melnikov
Aleksandr Orlov
Street musician
Valentina Pugachova
Nurse
Iya Savvina
Lady with a dog
Nikolai Sergeyev
Sick man
Aleksei Smirnov
Gentleman with pineapple
Lev Stepanov
Man in a case
Roman Tkachuk
Volsky
Oleg Khromenkov
Georgiy Yumatov
Mikhail Makarovich
Stepan Krylov
Sinyukhin (uncredited)
Mariya Vinogradova
Jealous man's wife (uncredited)
Anatoli Stolbov
Player (uncredited)
Yuri Rychkov
Arkasha Losev (uncredited)
Iosif Kheifits
Director
Nadezhda Simonyan
Original Music Composer
Genrikh Marandzhyan
Director of Photography
Stera Gorakova
Editor
Berta Manevich
Production Design
Isaak Kaplan
Production Design
Leonid Rakhmanov
Script Editor
Liliya Moshkina
Costume Design
R. Tarakanova
Set Decoration
Anatoliy Kudryavtsev
Assistant Camera
S. Filanovskiy
Assistant Camera
Yuriy Smirnov
Assistant Production Design
Viktoriya Mogilyanskaya
Assistant Production Design
Tamara Guseva
Assistant Editor
Iosif Kheifits
Writer
Konstantin Lashkov
Sound Recordist
V. Perov
First Assistant Director
Semyon Ivanov
First Assistant Camera
Vasiliy Ulyanov
Key Makeup Artist
Lydumila Krivitskaya
Assistant Director
I. Mochalova
Assistant Director
Yevgeni Tatarsky
Assistant Director
Anton Chekhov
Novel
Mikhail Gendenshteyn
Executive Producer