Andrei Zhilinsky

as Ilya Berts, convicts foreman

Pavel Tamm

as Peshekhonov

Vladimir Taskin

as Illarion Ostrobeylo, prison director

Mikhail Yanshin

as Telegraph operator

Vladimir Popov

as Chernyak, warden

Ivan Lavrov

as (uncredited)

Boris Lifanov

as Katulski