It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.

• Mosfilm
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov
• Nikolai Sergeyev
• Nikita Podgornyj
• Leonid Kuravlyov
• Ivan Pereverzev
• Lev Polyakov
• Oleg Golubitsky
• Leonid Kmit