Cast
Marne Maitland
Mountain Sacristan
Michael Müller
Pawel
Nigel Hawthorne
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Bruce Purchase
Jerzy Loparicz
Patrick Stewart
Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka
Philip Stone
Archbishop Baziak
Tim Woodward
Juliusz Kydrynski
Lee Montague
Marshall Konev
Eve Slatner
Sister Jadwiga
Derek Francis
Bishop Lec
John McEnery
Monsignor Kuczkowski
John Stacy
Prof. Grabowski
Paul Müller
(uncredited)
Albert Finney
Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II
Brian Cox
Father Góra
John Forgeham
Officer Moljek
Andrew Ray
Prof. Pigon
Alfred Burke
Karol Wojtyla Sr.
Ronald Pickup
Jan Tyranowski
Vincent Riotta
Teodor Krawick
William Simons
Foreman Krauze
Malcolm Tierney
Church Affairs Minister Skarzynski
Caroline Bliss
Rosa Kossack
Derrick O'Connor
Swiacki
Valentine Pelka
Boguslaw Banas
Kevin Stoney
Bishop Dygat
Ettore Martini
Cardinal (uncredited)
Frank Nuyen
Cardinal (uncredited)