Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy as Joseph Brodsky

Sergei Yursky as Father

Alisa Freyndlikh as Mother

Sergey Dreyden as Uncle

Svetlana Kryuchkova as Anna Akhmatova

Oleg Kovalov as

Artem Smola as Young Joseph Brodsky

Zhenya Oganjanyan as

Aleksandr Bargman as Yevgeny Rein

Sergey Barkovsky as Benckendorff

Lyudmila Davydova as

Aleksey Devotchenko as Dmitry Shostakovich

Nikolay Marosanov as

Vladimir Rozygraev as

Yuliya Vasileva as

Andrey Khrzhanovsky as Narrator (voice)

Aleksandr Lenkov as Cat

Sergey Russkin as Denisov

Danil Lavrenov as Pushkin

Artem Yakovlev as Young Joseph Brodsky

Vadim Lobanov as

Gennadiy Alimpiev as

Margarita Bychkova as

Mikhail Vasserbaum as

Igor Golovin as

Aleksandra Kulikova as

Evgeniy Merkurev as

Anatoliy Gorin as

Yevgeny Rein as himself

Dmitriy Khoronko as

Antonina Vvedenskaya as

Aleksandr Bezrukov as

Tamara Isaeva as

Inna Slobodskaya as

Marina Azizyan as

Stanislav Sokolov as

Venyamin Smekhov as Narrator (voice)

Yakov Gordin as