Vasiliy Shukshin as Piotr Lopakhin

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

Sergey Bondarchuk as pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

Yuriy Nikulin as pvt. Nekrasov

Georgi Burkov as pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

Ivan Lapikov as sergeant Poprischenko

Nikolai Gubenko as lieutenant Goloschyokov

Nikolay Volkov as pvt. Nikiforov

Nonna Mordyukova as Natalya Stepanovna

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as surgeon

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Glasha

Andrei Rostotsky as corporal Kochetygov

Tatyana Bozhok as nurse

Mykola Shutko as cook lisichenko

Andrei Popov as author's narration

Evgeniy Samoylov as Colonel Marchenko

Irina Skobtseva as head nurse

Angelina Stepanova as old Cossack woman

Danylo Ilchenko as Luka Mikhalych

Aleksey Vanin as soldier Akim Borzykh

Gennady Safronov as the chairman

Boris Nikiforov as captain Sumskov

Anatoli Pereverzev as Khmiz

Vitaliy Leonov as soldier

Mikhail Chigaryov as soldier

Stanislav Borodokin as soldier

Leonid Trutnev as soldier

Pyotr Merkuryev as soldier

Yermakhmad Aralev as

Aleksandr Konyashin as Ryadovoy

Igor E. Kuznetsov as

Vladimir Myshkin as

Gennadi Nenashev as

Lev Pavlov as

Nikolay Petrenko as

Khoshim Rakhimov as

Viktor Volkov as Nemets

Kolya Yefremov as Malchik

Yunus Yusupov as

Igor Efimov as Pyotr Lopakhin (voice)

Natalya Gundareva as Glikeriya (voice)

Nikolay Gorlov as санитар