Prize of the Kaunas City Committee of the Komsomol for the successful implementation of the military-patriotic theme at the 1981 All-Union Film Festival in Vilnius.
The plot is based on real events - the creation of the Front Youth Ensemble by Arkadiy Obrant.
The title of the film was the line of the poem "Young Drummer".
The roles of young dancers were performed by students of the Vaganovskiy school; the exception was Boris Birman, the director's son, a schoolboy.
According to a script written by Yuriy Yakovlev in his own book "Ballerina of the Political Department" (1979).