Valentin Popov as Sergei Zhuravlyov

Nikolai Gubenko as Nikolai Fokin

Stanislav Lyubshin as Slava Kostikov

Marianna Vertinskaya as Anya

Zinaida Zinovyeva as Olga Mikhailovna Zhuravlyova

Svetlana Starikova as Vera Zhuravlyova

Lev Prygunov as junior lieutenant Aleksandr Zhuravlyov

Tatyana Bogdanova as Lyusya Kostikova

Lyudmila Selyanskaya as conductress

Aleksandr Blinov as Kuzmich

Lev Zolotukhin as Anya's father

Pyotr Shcherbakov as Chernousov

Gennady Nekrasov as Vladimir Vasilyevich

Nikolai Zakharchenko as friend

Andrei Tarkovsky as guest at Anya's party

Dmitri Fedorovskiy as guest at Anya's party

Andrei Konchalovsky as Yura, guest at Anya's party

Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Svetlana, guest at Anya's party

Olga Gobzeva as Vera, guest at Anya's party

Natalya Ryazantseva as guest at Anya's party

Andrei Ladynin as guest at Anya's party

Lidiya Rasstrigina as Natasha

Rodion Nahapetov as red army soldier

Andrei Voznesenskiy as himself (uncredited)

Mikhail Svetlov as himself (uncredited)

Rimma Kazakova as herself (uncredited)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko as himself (uncredited)

Bella Akhmadulina as herself (uncredited)

Robert Rozhdestvenskiy as himself (uncredited)

Bulat Okudzhava as himself (uncredited)

Grigori Pozhenyan as self

Boris Slutskiy as himself (uncredited)

Larisa Burkova as Shura (uncredited)

Tamara Sovchi as Valya (uncredited)

Yevgeniy Maksimov as Episodic role