Sergei Yursky

Father

Alisa Freyndlikh

Mother

Sergey Dreyden

Uncle

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Anna Akhmatova

Aleksandr Bargman

Yevgeny Rein

Sergey Barkovsky

Benckendorff

Lyudmila Davydova

Aleksey Devotchenko

Dmitry Shostakovich

Vladimir Rozygraev

Aleksandr Lenkov

Cat

Sergey Russkin

Denisov

Artem Yakovlev

Young Joseph Brodsky

Vadim Lobanov

Gennadiy Alimpiev

Margarita Bychkova

Mikhail Vasserbaum

Igor Golovin

Evgeniy Merkurev

Anatoliy Gorin

Dmitriy Khoronko

Antonina Vvedenskaya

Aleksandr Bezrukov

Tamara Isaeva

Stanislav Sokolov

Venyamin Smekhov

Narrator (voice)