Leonid Parfyonov as Himself (Presenter)

Oleg Tabakov as Ivan Tsvetaev

Vladimir Etush as Mark Shagal

Igor Kvasha as Ilya Ehrenburg

Vladimir Pozner jr. as Pablo Picasso

Peter Nalitch as Pablo Picasso, young

Vladimir Zaytsev as Sergey Shchukin

Evgeny Mironov as Nikolay II

Mikhail Efremov as Alexey, stoker

Valeriy Magdyash as Ambroise Vollar/Leonid Brezhnev

Andrey Kurilov as Sergey Alexandrovich

Tatyana Yakovenko as Ekaterina Furtseva

Marina Zudina as Irina Antonova

Guillaume Protsenko as Henri Matisse

Raisa Ryazanova as widow of merchant

Oleg Vavilov as Pyotr Demichev

Valeriy Gromovikov as Alexander Gerasimov

Vadim Pomerantsev as Clement Voroshilov

Nikita Pomerantsev as museum employee

Nika Borisova as member of the workers' and peasants' Inspection

Vladimir Lyubovsky as member of the workers' and peasants' Inspection

Norman Foster as Self