Richard Crenna

The Narrator

Bernard Hill

Lech Walesa

Alec McCowen

Rakowski

Roy Kinnear

Kania

John Woodvine

Gierek

Don Henderson

Kuron

Frank Middlemass

Brezhnev

John Bluthal

Babiuch

Richard Kane

Jaruzelski

Tom Wilkinson

Rulewski

Gary Waldhorn

Jagielski

Jonathan Adams

Gwiazda

George Irving

Aristov (as George Waring)

Martin Wyldeck

Olszowski

Peter Bayliss

Barcikowski

Mike Hodges