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