The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
| Directing | Andrei Konchalovsky | Director |
| Writing | Valentin Ezhov | Writer |
| Writing | Andrei Konchalovsky | Writer |
| Production | Erik Vaysberg | Producer |
| Camera | Levan Paatashvili | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Boris Travkin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Eduard Artemyev | Music |
| Art | Aleksandr Adabashyan | Production Design |
| Art | Nikolay Dvigubskiy | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Natalya Lichmanova | Costume Design |
| Editing | Valentina Kulagina | Editor |
| Editing | Artavazd Peleshian | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tamara Gaidukova | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Nikita Mikhalkov | Producer |
| Production | Leonid Vereshchagin | Producer |