Colin Blakely as Stalin

David Suchet as Beria

Carroll Baker as Ellen Brown

Ian Hogg as Shaposhnikov

David Kelly as Sergo

Jean Heywood as Sopha

David Threlfall as Vasily

Lee Montague as Lee

Glynn Edwards as Vlasek

Nigel Stock as Molotov

Brian Glover as Nikita Krushchev

Wensley Pithey as Voroshilov

George A. Cooper as Kaganovitch

Peter Woodthorpe as Malenkov

Freddie Earlle as Mikoyan

Gawn Grainger as Zamorsky

Oscar Quitak as Mehklis

Bernard Gallagher as Vovka

Jane Galloway as Svetlana

Tim Preece as Lukov

George Costigan as Projectionist

Fred Lee Own as Mao Tse Tung

Malcolm Terris as Chairman of Physical Education

Eileen Helsby as Nina

Susan Carpenter as Seraphima

Paddy Joyce as Akhmet

Virginia Balfour as Housekeeper

Ceri Jackson as Olga

Darren Gordon as Young Josef

Flora Page as Little Masha