Микола Надемський

a symbolic old man / a Tsar General

Semen Svashenko

a Red Army soldier Tymish, first grandson

Les Podorozhniy

a Petliurite Pavlo, second grandson

Polina Skliar-Otava

a peasant Oksana / Roksana

Leonid Barbe

a Catholic monk

Heorhiy Astafyev

Scythian leader

Владимир Уральский

a peasant

Mariya Parshyna

Tymish's wife

Анастасій Симонов

a stout officer on horseback

Олександр Довженко