Different fates

Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya loves Styopa, but he is in love with Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. The rejected Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city, enters the factory and evening institute there. Sonya goes after him. But in Leningrad, relations between Fedya and Tanya do not add up. Beautiful and selfish Tanya, wanting to get comfortable in life, starts an affair with the famous composer Roshchin, but at the very first failure, Roshchina leaves him.
Stepan, finally appreciating Sonya's devotion, will marry her. Reflecting on how to transfer money for treatment to Fed, who is seriously ill, Styopa and Sonya make this request to Vera, who is going to Leningrad. There is sympathy between Vera and Fedya, and when Fedya leaves for friends in Siberia, Vera escorts him to the station. There they meet with Tanya. She hears an explanation between the young people and realizes that Fedya fell in love with Vera. Tanya is left alone.

• Tatyana Pileckaya - Tanya Ogneva
• Julian Panich - Fedya Morozov
• Georgy Yumatov - Styopa Ogurtsov
• Tatyana Konyukhova - Sonya Orlova
• Valentina Ushakova - Vera Zubova
• Lev Sverdlin - Nikolai Kapitonovich, father of Tanya
• Olga Zhizneva - Elena Semenovna, mother of Tanya
• Bruno Freindlich - composer Igor Stepanovich Roshchin
• Sergey Filippov - Kostya, driver Roshchina
• Vsevolod Sanaev - Vladimir Sergeevich Zhukov, party organizer
• Sergey Blinnikov - Egor Petrovich Zubov, shop manager
• Vladimir Dorofeev - Ivan Romanovich Sergeychuk, workshop foreman
• Anna Kolomiytseva - Lyudmila Ivanovna, wife of Yegor Zubov
• Lilia Maximova - Masha, wife of Roshchin
• Vera Orlova - Nina Nikiforovna, Morozov’s neighbor
• Alexander Pelevin - party committee secretary Petrunin
• Yuri Sarantsev - Galkin, Secretary of the Komsomol organization
• Konstantin Sorokin - Peter Petrovich, head of the factory personnel department
• Ada Wojcik - Maria Yakovlevna, mother of Fedi
• Eduard Bredun - Stepan's drinking companion
• Evgeni Kudryashev - drinking companion of Stepan
• Alexander Tolstykh - Stepan's drinking companion
• Muse of Krepkogorsk - Galya, Sonya's neighbor in the hostel
• Valentina Berezutskaya - Sonya's neighbor in the hostel
• Mikhail Derzhavin - Kostya, a student at the meeting
• Vladimir Zemlyanikin - student at the meeting
• Irina Zarubina - Aunt Stepan Ogurtsova
• Evgeny Zinoviev - Stepan’s hostel neighbor
• Alla Budnitskaya is a classmate of Stepan
• Leonid Satanovsky - Stepan's classmate
• Lev Borisov - student at the meeting
• Yuri Bogolyubov - student at the meeting
• Viktor Scheglov - student at the meeting
• Evgeny Gurov - member of the party committee bureau
• Nikolay Smirnov - member of the party committee bureau
• Alexander Titov - member of the party committee bureau
• Claudia Kozlyonkova - Sonya's neighbor in the hostel (not in the credits)
• Lyubov Studneva - Morozov’s neighbor

• Gelena Velikanova - vocals - waltz of graduates
• Vladimir Troshin - vocals - waltz of graduates
• Alexander Borisov - vocals - Roshchina romance

Music by N. Bogoslovsky. Words by N. Dorizo.

• Overture and song of graduates . G. Velikanova , V. Troshin . Choir and orchestra.
• Music for the stage on the stairs . Orchestra.
• Why didn’t you meet me? ( Song of Roshchin ). A. Borisov .

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, film music was released on Accord records (D-003483 and others). Since the mid-1960s, released on records by Melody.

In the 1990s, the film was released by the Krupny Plan film association on videotapes. In 2000, the film was re-released on tape by Dom Video. In the 2000s, the film was restored and released on DVD by the distributor of Russian Cinema Councill , and on November 19, 2009, the New Disc.

• Movie on the site of the Cinema Theater
• http://kinopark.by/film2542.html