It featured Julia Ormond and Oleg Menshikov, who regularly appears in Mikhalkov's films, in the leading roles.
In the film the character known as "Mitya" (Oleg Menshikov) is a former White Army officer turned NKVD agent.
Oleg Kalugin | Oleg Gazmanov | Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov | Oleg Mityaev | Oleg Kagan | Oleg Deripaska | Oleg Menshikov | Oleg Maisenberg | Oleg Kulik | Oleg Caetani | Oleg Yefremov | Oleg Strizhenov | Oleg Grabar | Oleg Goncharenko | Oleg Firsov | Oleg Vyugin | Oleg Timchenko | Oleg Tabakov | Oleg Pungin | Oleg Popov | Oleg Ostapenko | Oleg Maslennikov | Oleg Malov | Oleg Litvinenko | Oleg Khlevniuk | Oleg Kashin | Oleg I of Ryazan | Oleg Igorevich Marichev | Oleg Gordievsky | Oleg D. Jefimenko |
On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrei Tolstoy (Oleg Menshikov) with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.