Steve Buscemi

Nikita Khrushchev

Simon Russell Beale

Lavrenti Beria

Jeffrey Tambor

Georgy Malenkov

Dermot Crowley

Lazar Kaganovich

Michael Palin

Vyacheslav Molotov

Paul Whitehouse

Anastas Mikoyan

Paul Chahidi

Nicolai Bulganin

Andrea Riseborough

Svetlana Stalin

Adrian McLoughlin

Josef Stalin

Jason Isaacs

Field Marshal Zhukov

Paddy Considine

Andreyev

Rupert Friend

Vasily Stalin

Olga Kurylenko

Maria Veniaminovna Yudina

Tom Brooke

Sergei

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Nina Khrushchev

Justin Edwards

Spartak Sokolov, Conductor #1

Paul Ready

NKVD Officer Delov

Julia Mulligan

Woman in Layers of Clothes

Andrey Korzhenevskiy

Man in Layers of Clothes

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Musician #1

Jeremy Limb

Musician #2

Andy Gathergood

Citizen Bundled Into Car

Alla Binieieva

Middle Aged Wife

Nicholas Woodeson

Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2

Elaine Caxton

Mrs. Bresnavich

George Potts

Concert Director

Cara Horgan

Lidiya Timashuk

Nicholas Sidi

NKVD Officer Kobulov

Jonny Phillips

NKVD Officer Pervak

Tim Steed

Sergeant

June Watson

Matryona Petrovna

Adam Shaw

NKVD Guard Ilyin

Daniel Tuite

NKVD Officer Slimonov

David Crow

Khrustalyov

Karl Johnson

Dr. Lukomsky

Emilio Iannucci

Young Doctor

Daniel Booroff

Tall Doctor

Dan Mersh

Ice Hockey Coach

Richard Brake

Tarasov

James Barriscale

Army General

Daniel Tatarsky

NKVD Officer at Dacha Gates

Eva Sayer

Young Waitress

Diana Quick

Polina Molotova

Adam Ewan

Prisoner at Gulag

Michael Ballard

Volga Guard Chasov

Phil Deguara

Volga Guard Shulga

Jonathan Aris

Mezhnikov

Ewan Bailey

NKVD Officer Aslanov

Sheng-Chien Tsai

Translator

Dave Wong

Zhou Enlai

Sebastian Anton

NKVD Colonel Entin

Gerald Lepkowski

Leonid Brezhnev

Luke D'Silva

Moskalenko

Daniel Chapple

Red Army General

Ellen Evans

Teenage Girl

Oleh Drach

Red Army Colonel

Daniel Fearn

Marshal Konev

Henry Helm

Child Mourner (uncredited)