The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.

• Azerbaijanfilm
• Yuriy Bogolyubov
• Andrey Fayt
• Grigoriy Shpigel
• Nikolai Bogolyubov
• Nodar Shashigoglu
• Alasgar Alakbarov
• Lev Bordukov
• Adil Isgandarov