Franco Nero

as John Reed

Anatoly Ustyzhaninov

as Vladimir Lenin

Sydne Rome

as Louise Bryant

Bohdan Stupka

as Alexander Kerensky

Valeriy Barinov

as Nikolai Podvoisky

Irina Skobtseva

as Countess Panina

Olegar Fedoro

as Colonel Polkovnikov

Boris Belyakov

as Nikitin

Liliya Gurova

as conductor

Nikolai Boyarsky

as General

Yuriy Sokolov

as Eremeev - newspaper employee

Sergey Dorogov

as Red Army soldier

Aleksey Emelyanov

as engineer (uncredited)

Elena Finogeeva

as Alexandra Kollontai

Yulyen Balmusov

as Felix Dzerzhinsky

Boris Nevzorov

as Konstantin Eremeev

Mirdza Martinsone

as Bessie Beatty

Nikolay Burov

as Mikhail Tereshchenko

Yaroslav Baryshev

as Grigory Zinoviev

Vladimir Sedov

as Nikolai Kishkin

Vyacheslav Butenko

as Leon Trotsky

Yuriy Nikolaev

Aleksandr Sayko

as Antonov-Ovseyenko

Pyotr Vorobyov

as Albert

Tengiz Daushvili

as Joseph Stalin

Daniil Dombrovsky

as Yakov Sverdlov

Galiks Kolchitskiy

as industrialist

Janis Kluss

as Eino Rahja

Larisa Barabanova

as Krupskaya

Viktor Chebotaryov

as soldier-scooter

Veleriy Zakharyev

as Panin

Viktor Kremlev

as soldier

Nikolay Volkov

as soldier

Yuri Lazarev

as colonel

Yanis Yakobson

as sailor

Viktor Kraslavskiy

Boris Kardashenko

Alexander Vdovin

as sailor

Rodion Aleksandrov

as Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

Igor Bogolyubov

as Trofim

Sergey Bondarchuk

Stanislav Borodokin

as Blagonravov

Martins Verdins

as Nikolai Erickson

Mikhail Vasilyev

as senior officer

Vladimir Vyazovik

as sailor Zakharov

Yuri Golubtsov

Igor Dobryakov

as Kerensky's adjutant

Grigori Dunayev

as soldier

Lev Durov

as Schrader

Aleksandr Ivanov

as Artsibashev

Vadim Ivanov

as staff captain

Igor Ivanov

as Red Guard Sviridov

Mikhail Kalinkin

Olga Kirsanova-Miropolskaya

as revolutionary

Vyacheslav Klimov

Pavel Kornakov

Aleksandr Lebedev

as soldier

Galina Levchenko

as stenographer

Vladimir Lyod

as sailor

Valeriy Lushchevskiy

as printing worker

Viktor Mamayev

Yevgeniy Markov

as minister

Raisa Migunova

Pshizabi Misostishhov

as Bagratuni

Zhorzh Novitskiy

Stepan Oleksenko

as official

Mikhail Rozanov

as sailor

Nikolay Ryabkov

Vladimir Firsov

as Smirnov

Aleksandr Chuykov

as Guchkov

Ada Sheremetyeva

as Anna Elizarova-Ulyanova

Oleg Stefan

Vladimir Erenberg

Gleb Plaksin

Boris Bachurin

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Georgi Tatonov