Nikita Mikhalkov as Col. Sergei Petrovich Kotov

Oleg Menshikov as Mitya Arsentyev

Evgeny Mironov as Penal battalion commander

Dmitriy Dyuzhev as Ivan, Kotov's partner in prison

Artur Smolyaninov as Yurka

Andrey Merzlikin as Mayor

Sergey Garmash as Priest Alexander

Sergey Makovetskiy as SMERSH officer

Irina Apeksimova as

Andrei Panin as Supervisor of children's camp

Mikhail Efremov as

Aleksey Petrenko as Honest accountant

Pavel Derevyanko as Soldier without legs

Vladimir Ilin as Krik

Valentin Gaft as Wise prisoner

Viktoriya Tolstoganova as Marusia

Artyom Mikhalkov as

Rimma Markova as Nurse

Aleksandr Adabashyan as Communist

Aleksei Buldakov as Semen Budenny

Daniil Spivakovskiy as Angry officer

Maksim Sukhanov as Stalin

Roman Madyanov as Gen. Meleshko

Evgeniy Stychkin as

Nadezhda Mikhalkova as Nadya Kotova

Valeriy Zolotukhin as Captain of rescue barge

Angelina Mirimskaya as

Maksim Vinogradov as cadet

Natalya Surkova as Katya

Stepan Devonin as cadet

Igor Khripunov as soldier in a lorry

Sergey Kempo as kursant Kepa

Maksim Klyanov as (voice)

Oleg Vasilkov as

Sergey Burunov as

Ivan Vlasov as

Vyacheslav Ganenko as

Aleksandr Golubkov as

Eugeny Ermakov as

Simon Schwarz as

Robert Dölle as

Ivan G'Vera as

Karel Dobrý as

Akhmet Sattarov as