Melanie Pukaß as Self - Narrator (voice)

Timothy Snyder as Self

Andreas Kappeler as Self

Andrii Portnov as Self

Tamara Eidelman as Self

Oksana Zabuzhko as Self

Alexandra Goujon as Self

Georgiy Kasianov as Self

Sergei Loznitsa as Self

Vladimir Putin as Self (archive footage)

Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

Dmitry Medvedev as Self (archive footage)