Cast 32

1. 

   Rupert Everett

   Grigory

2. 

   Delphine Forest

   Aksinia

3. 

   F. Murray Abraham

   Pantaley

4. 

   Ben Gazzara

   Secretov

5. Lorenzo Amato

   Mitka Korshunov

6. 

   Natalya Andreychenko

   Daria

7. Mikhail Baskov

   Koshevoy

8. Alexander Bespalis

   Prokor Zykov

9. 

   Alyona Bondarchuk

   Natalia

10. 

    Sergey Bondarchuk

    General Krasnov

11. 

    Vladimir Gostyukhin

    Petr

12. 

    Nikolai Karachentsov

    Scheglov

13. 

    Gennadi Karnovich-Valua

    General Lysytzyn

14. 

    Ivan Lapikov

    old cossack

15. 

    Boris Shcherbakov

    Stepan

16. 

    Irina Skobtseva

    Vasilisa Ilinichna

17. 

    Ivan Vlasov

18. 

    Andrey Rudensky

    Listnitsky

19. 

    Nikolay Zasukhin

20. 

    Mikhail Golubovich

    Christonya

21. Yuliya Zhiveynova

    Dunyasha

22. Pavel Ostroukhov

    cossack

23. 

    Aleksandr Zharkov

    Ivan Alekseevich

24. 

    Ivan Bondar

    musician

25. 

    Nikita Mikhalkov

    narrator (voice)

26. 

    Galina Anisimova

    Aleshka's widow

27. 

    Fyodor Valikov

    grandpa Sashka

28. Igor Shpilev

29. 

    Alla Malkova

    submariner (uncredited)

30. 

    Mikhail Negin

    Martin Shamil

31. 

    Konstiantin Artyomenko

    Beskhlebnov

32. Aleksandr Melnikov

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