The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.

Cast

Nikolay Grinko

Иван (директор школы)

Izolda Izvitskaya

Нюра (подруга Авдотьи)

Zinaida Dekhtyaryova

Авдотья Павловна Белобородова (селекционер, агроном)

Valentina Vladimirova

Hина (учитель ботаники)

Ivan Dmitriev

Сергей Петрович Шамрай (профессор)

Zinoviy Gerdt

Самуил Яковлевич Горбис (селекционер)

Eduard Bredun

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