1. Boris Livanov as Matvey Morgunov, the titular village notary
2. Nina Doroshina as Lyuba, a young woman engaged to Pavel
3. Anatoly Kubatsky as Pavel, Lyuba's fiance and a worker at the local factory
4. Olga Vikland as Klavdia Ivanovna, the matchmaker
5. Konstantin Sorokin as Kuzma Kuzmich, the village elder
6. Maria Kramarenko as Nastya, Kuzma Kuzmich's wife
7. Evgeniy Morgunov as Fyodor Fyodorovich, the village gossip
8. Valentina Telegina as Frosya, Fyodor Fyodorovich's wife
9. Ivan Ryzhov as Ivan, the village drunk
10. Galina Polskikh as Liza, Ivan's wife
11. Andrei Sokolov as Ivan's father