Boris Shchukin
Vladimir Lenin
Nikolai Okhlopkov
Vasili, Lenin's protege
Aleksandr Shatov
Konstantinov, conspirator chieftain
Vasiliy Markov
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerjinsky
Vasili Vanin
Kremlin Commandant Mateyev
Nikolai Cherkasov
Maksim Gorky
Leonid Lyubashevsky
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov
Vladimir Solovyov
Sintsov, a spy
Nikolai Svobodin
Rutkovsky, a conspirator
Viktor Tretyakov
Novikov, a conspirator
Natalya Efron
Fanni Kaplan
Elena Muzil
Yevdokia Ivanova, Lenin's housekeeper
Mikhail Gelovani
Joseph Stalin
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Klim Voroshilov
Zinaida Dobina
Nadyezda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Lenina)
Serafim Koziminsky
Bobilev, Lenin's orderly
Klavdiya Korobova
Vasili's Wife
Nikolai Plotnikov
Kulak from Tamborsk
Iosif Tolchanov
Andrei Fedorovich, attending physician
Aleksandr Khokhlov
Professor of Medicine
Sergei Antimonov
Polyakov (uncredited)
Mikhail Romm
Director
Konstantin Eliseev
Costume Design
Boris Volchek
Director of Photography
Tatyana Berezantseva
Assistant Director
E. Abdirkinoi
Editor
Aleksei Kapler
Writer
Taisiya Zlatogorova
Writer
Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Art Direction
Nikolai Kryukov
Original Music Composer
Isidor Simkov
Co-Director
Evgeny Aron
Co-Director
Viktor Ivanov
Art Direction