Ben Kingsley

as Lenin

Dominique Sanda

as Inessa Armand

Leslie Caron

as Nedeshda Krupskaja

Jason Connery

as David

Timothy West

as Parvus

Peter Whitman

as Radek

Günther Maria Halmer

as Von Planetz

Dagmar Schwarz

as Olga

Xabier Elorriaga

as Platten

Paolo Bonacelli

as Zinoviev

Mattia Sbragia

as Furstenberg

Robin McCallum

as Von Buhring

Jeannine Mestre

as Liliana

Hans Kraemer

as Von Romberg

Amadeus August

Ernst Jacobi

Hans-Michael Rehberg

Thomas Heinze

Tobias Engel