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