- Pyotr Glebov
- Grigori Melekhov
- Elina Bystritskaya
- Aksiniya
- Zinaida Kirienko
- Natalya
- Daniil Ilchenko
- Panteleimon Prokofyevich Melekhov
- Anastasia Filippova
- Iljinicna
- Nikolai Smirnov
- Pyotr Melekhov
- Lyudmila Khityaeva
- Dariya Melekhova
- Natalya Arkhangelskaya
- Dunyashka
- Aleksandr Blagovestov
- Stepan Lekatov
- Igor Dmitriev
- Yevgeni Listnitsky
- Aleksandr Shatov
- Listnitsky Father
- Boris Novikov
- Mitka Korshunov
- Aleksandr Zhukov
- Miron Koshevoy
- Gennadi Karyakin
- Mikhail Koshevoy
- Viliam Shatunovsky
- Shtokman
- Aleksandr Titov
- Kotljarov
- Vadim Zakharchenko
- Prokhor Zykov
- Dmitriy Kapka
- Ded Sashka
- Pyotr Chernov
- Bunchik
- Mikhail Gluzskiy
- Yesaul Kalmykov
- Viktor Bubnov
- (as V. Bubnov)
- Aleksandra Denisova
- Lukinichna
- Aleksandr Karpov
- (as A. Karpov)
- Valentina Khmara
- Mashutka Koshevaya
- Pyotr Lyubeshkin
- Martin Shamil
- Yelena Maksimova
- Mother Koshevaya
- Nikolai Muravyov
- Podtelkov
- Vladimir Muravyov
- (as Vladimir Muravev)
- M. Stepanov
- Stepan Astakhov
- Semyon Svashenko
- Garandzha
- Nikolay Tyamin
- (as N. Tyamin)
- Sergey Yurtaykin
- Valet
- Rustik Musatov
- young Austrian soldier
- Vergiliy Renin
- Officer
- Vasiliy Shukshin
- Cameo
