A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
Kostya Ivanov
Igor Sklyar
Stepan Grushko
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Zhura Ryabov
Nikolai Averyushkin
Ivan Bavurin
Pyotr Shcherbakov
Katya Bobrova
Elena Tsyplakova
'Papa'
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Zhora
Pyotr Merkuryev
Kolbashev
Boryslav Brondukov
Samsonov
Leonid Kuravlyov
Orlov
Yuri Vasilyev
Musician (uncredited)
Anatoli Kroll
Clementine
Larisa Dolina
Samsonov's receptionist
Nikolay Kochegarov
gangster
Yuri Gusev
gray-haired gangster
Vadim Aleksandrov
real Kolbasyev
Vitaliy Bobrov
comission member
Boris Gitin
examiner
Grigoriy Malikov
doorman
Vladimir Pitsek
Yaryshkin, waiter
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Rashid Sadykov
brawler
Oleg Savosin
Ekaterina Semenova
brawler
Pyotr Skladchikov
Aleksandr Gorbachev
Evgeniy Kuleshov
Bukin
Oleg Kazancheev