The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR.

Rolan Bykovas Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov
Aleksandr Belyavskiyas Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Lev Durovas Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
Bohdan Stupkaas V.E. Semichastnyj
Aleksandr Mokhovas Sorohin
Aleksandra Zakharovaas Morino
Vladimir Troshinas N.V. Podgornyj
Yevgeni Zharikovas A. N. Shelepin
Pyotr Velyaminovas N. G. Ignatov
Viktor Sergachyovas M. A. Suslov