Jude Law as Vassili Zaitsev

Joseph Fiennes as Commisar Danilov

Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova

Ed Harris as Major König

Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev

Ron Perlman as Koulikov

Eva Mattes as Mother Filipov

Gabriel Thomson as Sacha Filipov

Matthias Habich as General Paulus

Alexander Schwan as Young Vassili Zaitsev

Lenn Kudrjawizki as Comrade in Train

Gennadi Vengerov as Russian NCO

Dan van Husen as Political Officer

Ivan Shvedoff as Volodya

Sophie Rois as Ludmilla

Mario Bandi as Anton

Hans Martin Stier as Red Army General

Clemens Schick as German NCO

Hendrik Arnst as Fat Colonel

Claudius Freyer as Aide de Camp

Dietmar Nieder as Blond Captain

Bernd Lambrecht as Captain with Lighter

Jim Dowdall as Stubborn Feldwebel

Maxim Kovalevski as Politruk / Sniper

Peter Silbereisen as Sweating Officer

Markus Majowski as Stammering Officer

Robert Stadlober as Spotter

Gotthard Lange as Corpse Robber

Anna Böttcher as Female Russian Typist

Holger Handtke as Paulus' Aide de Camp

Marc Bischoff as Stealing Photographer

Mark Zak as Russian Captain at Headquarters

Thomas Petruo as Russian Lieutenant

Dmitri Alexandrov as Comrade in Shelter

David Pagel as Pravda Interviewer

Galina Dobberstein as Izvestiya Interviewer

Igor Rozinsky as Krasnaya Zvezda Interviewer

Sergei Tokarev as Russian Reporter

Tom Wlaschiha as Soldier

Marischka Schubarth as Woman Plucking Eyebrows

Natalya Bondar as Woman Officer

Dana Cebulla as Athletic Female Sniper

Piotr Papierz as Politruk

Jarek Wozniak as Politruk

Genia Makarov as Politruk

Werner Daehn as Politruk

Birol Ünel as Politruk

Grigori Kofmann as Politruk

Aleksei Nesterov as Politruk

Vladimir Vilanov as Politruk

Aleksei Volodin as Junior Politruk

Gennadi Tselbyansky as Senior Politruk

André Emanuel Kaminski as Russian Trench Officer

Michael Schenk as Russian Officer

Jury Cooper as Russian NCO

Manfred Witt as Russian NCO

Arslan Kodirov as Chechen Sniper / Sniper / Russian Officer

Axel Neumann as Gaunt German Prisoner

Morin Smole as Sniper

Inna Samain as Sniper

Keta Burowa as Female Russian Radio Operator

Toby Cockerell as Russian Sharpshooter (uncredited)

Jürgen G.H. Hoppmann as Russian railroad worker / Polish railroad worker (uncredited)

Kay Hunsicker as Soldier (uncredited)

Eddy Joseph as Voice on Tannoy (voice) (uncredited)

Martin Glyn Murray as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Valentin Plătăreanu as General Schmidt (uncredited)

Thomas Rösicke as Russian Guard (uncredited)

Mikhail Matveev as Grandfather