Barry Foster

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Michael Hordern

Narrator

Charles Kay

Tsar Nicholas II

Gayle Hunnicutt

Tsarina Alexandra

Patrick Stewart

Vladimir Lenin

Laurence Naismith

Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary

Marius Goring

Von Hindenburg

Gemma Jones

Princess Vicky

Peter Dyneley

Von Bulow

Isla Blair

Grand Duchess Ella

Tony Jay

Tsar Alexander III

Denis Lill

'Fritz', Prince Frederick William

Maurice Denham

Kaiser Wilhelm I

Freddie Jones

Witte

Robert Brown

Uncle Serge

John Elliot