Sam Neill as Marian

Christopher Cazenove as Tadek Sobański

Lisa Harrow as Wanda

John Welsh as Priest

Maurice Denham as Sapieha

Cezary Morawski as Karol Wojtyła

Daniel Olbrychski as Captain

Maja Komorowska as Nun

Izabela Olszewska as

Andrzej Łapicki as German Officer

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz as Mieczysław Kotlarczyk

Piotr Fronczewski as Palitsch

Maciej Robakiewicz as

Tadeusz Bradecki as

Marek Kondrat as Policeman

Jerzy Stuhr as Engineer

Jerzy Zelnik as

Jerzy Nowak as Professor

Liliana Głąbczyńska as Nun

Anna Milewska as

Janusz Gajos as

Andrzej Hudziak as

Warren Clarke as Władek

Jonathan Blake as Jozef

Kathleen Byron as Tadek's Mother

John Franklyn-Robbins as Curate

Carol Gillies as Wladek's Wife

Philip Latham as Chaplain

Emma Relph as Magda

Susan Dutton as Activist

Rupert Frazer as 1st Security Officer

Michael Jayston as Narrator (voice)

Georgine Anderson as Woman

Kazimierz Borowiec as Wladek's Father (Christ in the Passion)

Simon Dutton as Assistant

Anne Dyson as Wladek's Mother

Kazimierz Kursa as Father Kolbe

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko as Priest from Warsaw

Matthew Long as Official

Martin Milman as

Timothy Morand as Operator

Geoffrey Russell as Curate

Andrew Seear as Stefan

Philip Trewinnard as Investigating Official

Andrzej Żarnecki as Karol Wojtyla's Father

Małgorzata Zajączkowska as Nun (uncredited)