First-Year Student

Valentina Kibardina as Teacher Yelena Maksimova as Woman with flowers Rostislav Plyatt as Botanist Natalya Zashchipina as Marusya Orlova Tamara Makarova as Anna Ivanovna, teacher Georgi Millyar as Postman Natalya Tsvetkova as episode Tatyana Barysheva as Marusya's grandmother Yelena Yegorova as Veronika Ilyinishna, school principal Stepan Kayukov as Ivan Sergeyevich, street sweeper Kira Golovko as Marusya's mother Vladimir Uralskiy as Policeman Mariya Yarotskaya as Teacher's mother Rudolf Furmanov as (uncredited) Aleksandr Degtyar as Marusya's father

Ilya Frez Director Gavriil Egiazarov Director of Photography Avenir Zak Second Unit Director Yevgeni Shvarts Writer, Novel Elza Rappoport Costume Design Dmitri Kabalevsky Original Music Composer Mikhail Ziv Original Music Composer Arnold Roytman Conductor