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...

• Nikolai LebedevDirector
• Arkadi MlodikWriter
• Aleksandr VlasovWriter
• Vladimir MaklakovOriginal Music Composer

• Yuriy BogolyubovGleb Prokhorov
• Nikolay RozhdestvenskyArkhip
• Oleg LetnikovVassyl
• Nikolay KuzminGrizha
• Aleksandr AfanasevCast
• Mikhail VasilyevDubok
• Boris ShcherbakovGlebka Prokhorov
• Aleksei SmirnovCast
• Nikolai KryukovCast