Mikhail Gelovani as Josef Stalin

Sofiya Giatsintova as Varvara Mikhaylovna Petrova

Nikolai Bogolyubov as Aleksandr Petrov / Stepan Petrov

Nikolai Plotnikov as Uncle Vanya Yermilov

Svetlana Bogolyubova as Olga Petrovna

Georgi Sagaradze as Georgi, Olga's lover

Pavel Ismatov as Yusuf Tugunbayev

Vladimir Solovyov as Simon Rusayev

Sergei Blinnikov as Baklan, a friend

Tamara Makarova as Xenia Petrova

Z. Zakharchenko as Petka, the boy

Ilya Nabatov as French Minister Georges Bonnet

Vladimir Balashov as Anatol Lipsky, saboteur

Aleksandr Khvylya as Semyen Budyonny

Aleksei Gribov as Kliment Voroshilov

Roman Yuryev as Andrei Zhdanov

Grigori Belinnkevich as Sergei Kirov

Vasili Merkuryev as Gen. Nikolai Voronov

Maksim Shtraukh as Rogers, American journalist

Nikolai Chaplygin as Johnson, British Journalist

Dmitri Pavlov as Sergei Petrov

Fyodor Blazhevich as Anastas Mikoyan