Nikolay Eryomenko as senior mechanic Sergey Sergeevich "Grandfather"

Pyotr Velyaminov as the captain of the cargo ship "Nezhin" Ivan Ilyich

Talgat Nigmatulin as the pirate Saleh, "Baby", aka Lee Guang, Nguyen Cho

Rein Aren as pirate captain "Master"

Dilorom Kambarova as Maa Islander

Natalya Khorokhorina as ship barmaid Masha

Maija Eglite as ship librarian Aina

Tadeusz Kasyanov as boatswain Matveich

Pavel Remezov as ship's doctor

Victor Zhiganov as sailor Igor Mikhailovich Stetsenko

Viktor Gordeyev as Yura Mikosha

Georgi Martirosyan as George Klyuev

Leonid Trutnev as radio operator

Nartai Begalin as machine gun pirate wearing a cap

Lactemir Dztiev as bearded pirate

Vladimir Episkoposyan as bearded pirate ("give a hand, Noah")

Igor Klass as pirate Joachim Johannes Schweigert, aka Rolf Schneider, aka Kurt Winner (“I don't beat women”)

Bimbolat Kumalagov as mustachioed pirate attacking captain and ship's doctor during boarding

Gennadi Chetverikov as Hardy Pirate (bald, wearing dark glasses on his neck)

Iroda Aliyeva as

Farhod Aminov as

Lola Badalova as

Aleksandr Bespalyy as first officer

Valery Grets as

Nikolay Dyomin as

Vladimir Zharikov as

Igor Kashintsev as representative of a western company, pirate informant - Agent Lotos

Vladimir Karpichyov as

Yuri Komarov as

Sergey Kuchkov as

Vladimir Nikitin as

Mamura Rakhimova as

L. Toychieva as

Shoira Tursunbayeva as

Oleg Fedulov as

Yahyo Fayzullayev as

Dzhikhangir Shakhmuradov as

Aleksei Safonov as the boatswain (voice)

Vladimir Soshalsky as pirate captain "Master" (voice)

Vladimir Smirnov as senior assistant captain (uncredited)

Rudolf Pankov as narrator (voice) (uncredited)