The Mandate

1919. Gleb Prokhorov, a worker from St. Petersburg, is sent on a mission by the party to lead a small food supply detachment with a mandate signed by Lenin to a village to get bread for starving Petrograd. But in an unequal battle with the kulaks, the entire food supply detachment is killed, and the wounded Prokhorov passes the mandate on to his thirteen-year-old son, Glebka...

Cast

Yuriy Bogolyubov

Gleb Prokhorov

Nikolay Rozhdestvensky

Arkhip

Oleg Letnikov

Vassyl

Nikolay Kuzmin

Grizha

Aleksandr Afanasev

Mikhail Vasilyev

Dubok

Boris Shcherbakov

Glebka Prokhorov

Aleksei Smirnov

Nikolai Kryukov