The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.
| Directing | Igor Maslennikov | Director |
| Writing | Igor Maslennikov | Writer |
| Writing | Vera Panova | Novel |
| Camera | Dmitriy Meskhiyev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Mark Kaplan | Production Design |
| Sound | Vladimir Dashkevich | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Asya Zvereva | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Natalya Vasilyeva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yuliya Khramtsova | Makeup Artist |