Sam Neill

as Marian

Christopher Cazenove

as Tadek Sobański

Lisa Harrow

as Wanda

John Welsh

as Priest

Maurice Denham

as Sapieha

Cezary Morawski

as Karol Wojtyła

Daniel Olbrychski

as Captain

Maja Komorowska

as Nun

Izabela Olszewska

Andrzej Łapicki

as German Officer

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

as Mieczysław Kotlarczyk

Piotr Fronczewski

as Palitsch

Maciej Robakiewicz

Tadeusz Bradecki

Marek Kondrat

as Policeman

Jerzy Stuhr

as Engineer

Jerzy Zelnik

Jerzy Nowak

as Professor

Liliana Komorowska

as Nun

Anna Milewska

Janusz Gajos

Andrzej Hudziak

Warren Clarke

as Władek

Jonathan Blake

as Jozef

Kathleen Byron

as Tadek's Mother

John Franklyn-Robbins

as Curate

Carol Gillies

as Wladek's Wife

Philip Latham

as Chaplain

Emma Relph

as Magda

Susan Dutton

as Activist

Rupert Frazer

as 1st Security Officer

Michael Jayston

as Narrator (voice)

Georgine Anderson

as Woman

Kazimierz Borowiec

as Wladek's Father (Christ in the Passion)

Simon Dutton

as Assistant

Anne Dyson

as Wladek's Mother

Kazimierz Kursa

as Father Kolbe

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

as Priest from Warsaw

Matthew Long

as Official

Martin Milman

Timothy Morand

as Operator

Geoffrey Russell

as Curate

Andrew Seear

as Stefan

Philip Trewinnard

as Investigating Official

Andrzej Żarnecki

as Karol Wojtyla's Father

Małgorzata Zajączkowska

as Nun (uncredited)