On screen
Cast
97 credited performers
Michael Hordern
Narrator
Charles Kay
Tsar Nicholas II
Gayle Hunnicutt
Tsarina Alexandra
Patrick Stewart
Vladimir Lenin
Laurence Naismith
Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary
Griffith Jones
Hintze (uncredited)
Lynn Farleigh
Krupskaya
Marius Goring
Von Hindenburg
Gemma Jones
Princess Vicky
Peter Dyneley
Von Bulow
Isla Blair
Grand Duchess Ella
Peter Copley
Bethmann-Hollweg
Tony Jay
Tsar Alexander III
Denis Lill
'Fritz', Prince Frederick William
Maurice Denham
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Freddie Jones
Witte
Robert Brown
Uncle Serge
Erik Chitty
Hertling
Hugh Burden
Protopopov
John Robinson
Muller (uncredited)
Michael Bates
Von Ludendorff
Eve Pearce
Empress Dona (uncredited)
Curd Jürgens
Otto von Bismarck
Sandor Elès
Count Andrassy
Roger Hammond
Albrecht
Vernon Dobtcheff
Count Stookau
Nora Swinburne
Katharina Schratt
Jan Francis
Kschessinska
Ed Devereaux
Purtales
Bruce Purchase
Von Plehve
Kenneth Colley
Father Gapon
John Stratton
Doctor
Geoffrey Toone
Groener
Pamela Brown
Archduchess Sophia
Emrys James
Count Taaffe
Miriam Margolyes
Anna Vyrubova
Edward Wilson
Martov
Michael Bryant
Ratchkowsky
Peter Vaughan
Izvolsky
Miles Anderson
Young Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary
Frank Thornton
Prince Albert
James Cossins
Count Josi Hoyos
John Welsh
Archbishop
Derek Francis
Edward VII of England
T. P. McKenna
Count Conrad von Hotzendorf
Hetty Baynes
Grand Duchess Tatiana
Diane Keen
Young 'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
Andrew Keir
Wickham Steed
Charles Gray
Rodzianko
Mary Wimbush
Zasulich
Rachel Gurney
'Sisi', Empress Elizabeth of Austria
Kevin Stoney
Father John
John Turner
Prince Mirsky
Frank Middlemass
Stolypin
Jay Neill
Heller
Alix Crista
Mounia
Frederick Jaeger
Holstein
Olaf Pooley
Police President Baron Krauss
Michael Kitchen
Trotsky
Peter Woodthorpe
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
John Barcroft
Eulenberg
Basil Henson
Von Moltke
Michael Sheard
Losehek
George Merritt
Ketterl
Colin Baker
Crown Prince Willie
David Neal
Baltazzi
Paul Eddington
Plekhanov
Alan Hockey
Doctor
John Moffatt
Aehrenthal
Neville Barber
Count Paar
John Quarmby
Lamsdorf
John Bennett
Georges Clemenceau
Nigel Stock
General Alexiev
Ursula Howells
Empress Maria Fyodorovna
Jenny Till
Mounia
John Nightingale
Cousin Serge
Michael Aldridge
Rasputin
Rosalie Crutchley
Miehen, the Grand Duchess Vladimir
Barbara Keogh
Vara
Pippa Vickers
Grand Duchess Anastasia
Martha Nairn
Grand Duchess Olga
Prue Clarke
Grand Duchess Maria
John Phillips
Grand Duke Nicholas
Frank Mills
A.F. Trepov
David McKail
Mackenzie
Michael Gough
Helphand
Tom Conti
Glazkov
Jim Norton
Kerensky
Malcolm Terris
Bronsky
David Collings
Miliukov
Esmond Knight
General Ruzski
John Rhys-Davies
Zinoviev
Colin Jeavons
Printer
Jon Croft
Sergeant (uncredited)
Laurence Hardy
Prince Max (uncredited)
Geoffrey Chater
Charles
Antony Carrick
Dr. Wegner