Max Irons as Yuri

Samantha Barks as Natalka

Terence Stamp as Ivan

Barry Pepper as Yaroslav

Tamer Hassan as Sergei

Aneurin Barnard as Mykola

Anastasiya Ostreinova as Mykola's Girlfriend

Tom Austen as Taras

Richard Brake as Medved

William Beck as Stefan

Lucy Brown as Olena

Nicholas Aaron as Walter Duranty

Edward Akrout as Professor Temchuck

Gary Oliver as Stalin

Jack Hollington as Lubko

Richard Ashton as Father Ostapovich

Paul Hickey as Lazar Kaganovich

Michael Jenn as Professor Malishnikov

Rod Hunt as Anton

Malcolm Freeman as Molotov

Joey Price as Isak

Kevin Hudson as Peasant

Kathy Kiera Clarke as Varvara

Adam McNamara as Dmitri

David G. Robinson as Stalin's Bodyguard

Jocasta Anderson as Helen

Tim Charles as Gregory Zinoviev

Rob Mitchell-James as Nikolai Bukharin

Kane Ogieva as Willard

Ostap Stupka as Boiko

Dennis Good as Voice over

Dominic Borrelli as Andrei Zhdanov

Jane Thorne as Gaunt Old Woman

Marat Khairoullin as Revolutionary Pesant

Ryan Bromham as Yuri

Tracy Kirby as Senia