Kadro (33)
Rupert EverettGrigory
Delphine ForestAksinia
F. Murray AbrahamPantaley
Ben GazzaraSecretov
Lorenzo AmatoMitka Korshunov
Natalya AndreychenkoDariaMikhail BaskovKoshevoyAlexander BespalisProkor Zykov
Alyona BondarchukNatalia
Sergey BondarchukGeneral Krasnov
Vladimir GostyukhinPetrAlexander JharkovIvan Alexeevich
Nikolai KarachentsovScheglov
Gennadi Karnovich-ValuaGeneral Lysytzyn
Ivan Lapikovold cossack
Boris ShcherbakovStepan
Irina SkobtsevaVasilisa Ilinichna
Aleksandr Melnikov
Ivan Vlasov
Andrey RudenskyListnitsky
Nikolay Zasukhin
Mikhail GolubovichChristonya
Yuliya ZhiveynovaDunyashaPavel Ostroukhovcossack
Aleksandr ZharkovIvan AlekseevichIvan Bondarmusician
Nikita Mikhalkovnarrator (voice)
Galina AnisimovaAleshka's widow
Fyodor Valikovgrandpa SashkaIgor Shpilev
Alla Malkovasubmariner (uncredited)
Mikhail NeginMartin Shamil
Konstiantin ArtyomenkoBeskhlebnov