Kiur Aarma as Narrator (voice)

Jaak Kilmi as Narrator (voice)

Alo Kõrve as Narrator (voice)

Jaan Tootsen as Narrator (voice)

Liina Vahtrik as Narrator (voice)

Eduard Toman as Narrator (voice)

Gerda Viira as Urve

Oskar Vuks as Jaak

Toomas Pool as Toomas

Jaan-Joosep Puusaag as Joosep

Einar Kotka as Young Nikolai

Aleksandr Aug as Joosep's Father

Birgit Veemaa as Joosep's Mother

Esko Salminen as Self - Historian

Sakari Kiuru as Self - Finnish TV Former Head

Arvo Sildnik as Self - TV Engineer

Edward Lucas as Self - Writer

Hagi Shein as Self - Sociologist

Georgi G. Potchepstov as Self - Media Researcher

Voldemar Lindström as Self - Soviet Estonian TV Program Director

Nikolai Haug as Self - Inventor

Åke Blomqvist as Self (archive footage)

Ami Aspelund as Self (archive footage)

David Hasselhoff as Self (archive footage)

Karl Vaino as Self (archive footage)

Leonid Brezhnev as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev as Self (archive footage)

Panda Nikander as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)

Teija Sopanen as Self (archive footage)

Urho Kekkonen as Self (archive footage)

Väinö Purje as Self (archive footage)

Yuri Andropov as Self (archive footage)

Lieko Zachovalová as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Aivar Võimre as Self (archive footage)

Mauno Koivisto as Self (uncredited)

Arnold Rüütel as Self (uncredited)