- Olga Kurylenko Maria Yudina
- Jason Isaacs Georgy Zhukov
- Andrea Riseborough Svetlana Stalin
- Jeffrey Tambor Georgy Malenkov
- Steve Buscemi Nikita Khrushchev
- Rupert Friend Vasily Stalin
- Paddy Considine Comrade Andryev
- Simon Russell Beale Lavrentiy Beria
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths Músico
- Diana Quick Polina Molotova
- Karl Johnson Dr. Lukomsky
- Cara Horgan Lidiya Timashuk
- David Crow Khrustalyov
- Justin Edwards Spartak Sokolov - Conductor 1
- Paul Chahidi Nicolai Bulganin