Anatoliy Papanov as Maksim Varravin / Captain Polutatarinov

Erast Garin as Kandid Tarelkin / Sila Kopylov

Nikolay Trofimov as Ivan Rasplyuev

Ivan Zhevago as Private bailiff Oh

Georgi Georgiu as Landowner Chvankin

Svetlana Kharitonova as Philistine Brandahlystova

Aleksandra Denisova as Mavrusha

Ivan Ryzhov as Janitor Pakhomov

Lev Polyakov as Kachala

Ivan Kosykh as Shatala

German Kachin as Vanechka

Vladimir Maslatsov as Clerk

Georgi Millyar as Clerk

Nikolay Gorlov as Clerk

Evgeniy Dubasov as Clerk

Mikhail Shcherbakov as Clerk

Valentin Bryleev as Clerk

Pyotr Mukhin as Clerk

Margarita Zharova as Bride from Tarelkin's dream (uncredited)

Valentina Karavayeva as (uncredited)