Rupert Everett

as Grigory

Delphine Forest

as Aksinia

F. Murray Abraham

as Pantaley

Ben Gazzara

as Secretov

Lorenzo Amato

as Mitka Korshunov

Natalya Andreychenko

as Daria

Mikhail Baskov

as Koshevoy

Alexander Bespalis

as Prokor Zykov

Alyona Bondarchuk

as Natalia

Sergey Bondarchuk

as General Krasnov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

as Petr

Nikolai Karachentsov

as Scheglov

Gennadi Karnovich-Valua

as General Lysytzyn

Ivan Lapikov

as old cossack

Boris Shcherbakov

as Stepan

Irina Skobtseva

as Vasilisa Ilinichna

Ivan Vlasov

Andrey Rudensky

as Listnitsky

Nikolay Zasukhin

Mikhail Golubovich

as Christonya

Yuliya Zhiveynova

as Dunyasha

Pavel Ostroukhov

as cossack

Aleksandr Zharkov

as Ivan Alekseevich

Ivan Bondar

as musician

Nikita Mikhalkov

as narrator (voice)

Galina Anisimova

as Aleshka's widow

Fyodor Valikov

as grandpa Sashka

Igor Shpilev

Alla Malkova

as submariner (uncredited)

Mikhail Negin

as Martin Shamil

Konstiantin Artyomenko

as Beskhlebnov

Aleksandr Melnikov