Cast
Peter Finch
Umberto Nobile
Mario Adorf
Giuseppe Biagi
Vladimir Smirnov
Shelagin
Eve Kivi
The Blonde Lady (uncredited)
Gleb Plaksin
The Reporter (uncredited)
Ernst Romanov
The Polar Explorer (uncredited)
Tamara Timofeeva
The Woman in the Crowd of People Seeing Off (uncredited)
Andrei Vertogradov
Radio Operator of 'Citta di Milano' (uncredited)
Viktor Kharitonov
Part-bit (uncredited)
Donatas Banionis
Adalberto Mariano
Heinz Braun
Reporter (uncredited)
Boris Goldayev
Kolka Shmidt's Fellow Villager (uncredited)
Luidmila Tsvetkova
Part-bit (uncredited)
Salme Reek
Woman on the Kingsbay Pier (uncredited)
Boris Khmelnitsky
Alfredo Viglieri
Claudia Cardinale
Valeria
Tengiz Archvadze
Renato Alessandrini (uncredited)
Rein Aren
Karl Jõgi (uncredited)
Aleksandra Yozhkina
The Woman in the Crowd of People Seeing Off (uncredited)
Galina Mikeladze
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Oleg Mokshantsev
Pavel Ponomaryov (uncredited)
Rogvold Sukhoverko
Ringborg (uncredited)
Eduard Martsevich
Finn Malmgren
Grigoriy Gay
Rudolf Samoylovich
Nikolay Ivanov
Kolka Shmidt
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
Straube (uncredited)
Hardy Krüger
Einar Lundborg
Nikita Mikhalkov
Boris Chukhnovskiy
Yuriy Solomin
Felice Trojani
Otar Koberidze
Natale Cecioni
Yuri Vizbor
Frantisek Behounek
Irakli Khizanishvili
Pomella (uncredited)
Boris Klyuev
The Reporter (uncredited)
Sean Connery
Roald Amundsen
Luigi Vannucchi
Captain Zappi
Massimo Girotti
Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Dmytro Myrhorodskyi
Caratti (uncredited)
Bruno O'Ya
Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Paul Scofield
Main Judge (uncredited)
Heino Mandri
Man Holding a Horn on the Kingsbay Pier (uncredited)
Robert Daglish
The Reporter (uncredited)
Leonid Kanevsky
Italian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Stanislav Khitrov
Radio Operator of Icebreaker 'Krasin' (uncredited)
Stepan Krylov
The Boatswain (uncredited)
Vitaliy Matveyev
Seeing Off (uncredited)
Yuriy Nazarov
Anatoliy Alekseev (uncredited)
Nikolay Smorchkov
The Seaman (uncredited)