Max von Sydow

Henry Kesdi

Lothaire Bluteau

Stefan Bugajski

Sarah Miles

Helena Kesdi

Sofie Gråbøl

Annette Berg

Aleksander Bardini

Prof. Jerzy Kern

Beata Tyszkiewicz

Gelda

Sławomira Łozińska

Doctor's Wife

Peter Hesse Overgaard

Joseph Kesdi

Lars Lunøe

Doctor

Trevor Cooper

Muller

Stanisław Brejdygant

Maier

Maja Ploszynska

Child

Eugenia Herman

Mrs. Olsen

Krystyna Sznerr-Mierzejewska

Applicant

Wiktor Zborowski

Stanislaw Holly

Peter Thurrell

Catherine Thornborrow

Applicant

Piotr Wojtowicz

Wasyl Maslennikow

Krystyna Chmielewska

Librarian

Eugeniusz Priwieziencew

Guest at the Party (uncredited)