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. 

   Alena 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. 

    Aleksandr Melnikov

18. 

    Ivan Vlasov

19. 

    Andrey Rudensky

    Listnitsky

20. 

    Nikolay Zasukhin

21. 

    Mykhaylo Holubovych

    Christonya

22. Yuliya Zhiveynova

    Dunyasha

23. Pavel Ostroukhov

    cossack

24. 

    Aleksandr Zharkov

    Ivan Alekseevich

25. 

    Ivan Bondar

    musician

26. 

    Nikita Mikhalkov

    narrator (voice)

27. 

    Galina Anisimova

    Aleshka's widow

28. 

    Fyodor Valikov

    grandpa Sashka

29. Igor Shpilev

30. 

    Alla Malkova

    submariner (uncredited)

31. 

    Mikhail Negin

    Martin Shamil

32. 

    Konstiantin Artyomenko

    Beskhlebnov

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