Daniel Day-Lewis as Tomas

Juliette Binoche as Tereza

Lena Olin as Sabina

Derek de Lint as Franz

Stellan Skarsgård as The Engineer

Erland Josephson as The Ambassador

Pavel Landovský as Pavel

Donald Moffat as Chief Surgeon

Daniel Olbrychski as Interior Ministry Official

Tomasz Borkowy as Jiri

Bruce Myers as Czech Editor

Pavel Slabý as Pavel's Nephew

Pascale Kalensky as Nurse Katja

Jacques Ciron as Swiss Restaurant Manager

Anne Lonnberg as Swiss Photographer

László Szabó as Russian Interrogator

Vladimír Valenta as Mayor

Clovis Cornillac as Boy in Bar

Consuelo De Haviland as Tall Brunette

Leon Lissek as Bold Man in Bar

Jacqueline Abraham-Vernier as

Judith Atwell as

Claudine Berg as

Jean-Claude Bouillon as

Miroslaw Beuer as

Niven Busch as

Margot Capelier as

Victor Chelkoff as

Monica Constandache as

Jean-Claude Dauphin as Swiss editor

Dominique De Moncutt as

Bernard Lepinaux as

Josiane Lévêque as

Peter Majer as

Charles Millot as Lecturer in Geneva

Gérard Moulévrier as

Jan Němec as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

Charly Oleg as

Sylvie Plantard as

Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff as

Christine Potter as

Hana Maria Pravda as

Romano as

André Sanfratello as

Jiří Stanislav as

Milos Szoboda as

Helenka Vernier as

Marrian Walters as

Serge Delanoue as Danseur (uncredited)

Philip Kaufman as Man walking on street outside Sabina's flat (uncredited)

Isabelle Noérie as Student (uncredited)