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