- Horst Buchholz
- Dymitr Mirga
- Didi Ramati
- Wala Mirga, Dymitr's wife
- Piotr Polk
- Roman Mirga, Dymitr's son
- Maya Ramati
- Zoya Natkin / Mirga
- Kasia Siwak
- Mara Mirga, Dymitr's daughter
- Marne Maitland
- Sandu Mirga, Dymitr's father
- Bettine Milne
- Rosa Mirga, Dymitr's mother
- Aldona Grochal
- Wala's Sister
- Wieslaw Wójcik
- Bora Natkin, Zoya's father
- Ernestyna Winnicka
- Zoya's mother
- Marcin Tronski
- Dr. Josef Mengele
- Jan Machulski
- Col. Krüger
- Zitto Kazann
- Mikita
- Wojciech Pastuszko
- Koro, Mikita's son
- Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski
- Pawel, Romans friend
- Aleksander Bardini
- Greczko Szura
- Marek Barbasiewicz
- Count Paszkowski
- Jerzy Nowak
- Prof. Epstein, doctor in Auschwitz Camp
- Wladyslaw Komar
- Dombrowski
- Wiktor Zborowski
- Tomasz
- Krzysztof Swietochowski
- Franko
- Aleksander Ford
- Zenon
- Judy Hecht Dumontet
- Zenon's wife
- Ewa Telega
- Ira
- Jerzy Turek
- Polish peasant
- Wojciech Wysocki
- Dowódca oddzialu partyzanckiego
- Wlodzimierz Jasinski
- Pop
- Edward Dobrzanski
- Kola, Polish peasant
- Hanna Polk
- Zofia
- Margita Dukiet
- Zofia's mother
- Juliusz Berger
- Slovak gypsy man
- Boguslaw Sobczuk
- Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz Camp Commandant
- Cezary Morawski
- Capt. Brond
- Barbara Rachwalska
- Mrs. Stefa
- Emilian Kaminski
- Gypsy singer
- Celina Ciecierska
- Gypsy singer
- Robert Majewski
- Gypsy singer
- Magdalena Warsinska
- Nela, prisoner in Auschwitz Camp
- Bogumil Antczak
- Doctor in Auschwitz Camp
- Aleksy Awdiejew
- (uncredited)
- Elzbieta Bielska-Graczyk
- (uncredited)
- Irena Byszewska
- (uncredited)
- Jerzy Frydrych
- (uncredited)
- Jan Hencz
- (uncredited)
- Ryszard Jasinski
- (uncredited)
- Leszek Kubanek
- (uncredited)
- Tomasz Medrzak
- A Man
- Bogdan Michalak
- (uncredited)
- Jaroslaw Pilarski
- (uncredited)
- Marek Probosz
- Guest at the Sylvester Party
- Wojciech Skibinski
- Policeman
- Sylwester Zawadzki
- (uncredited)
- Jerzy Zelnik
- Danko Müller, Dymitr's cousin
