Krystyna Janda
Agnieszka

Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Mateusz Birkut / Maciek Tomczyk

Tadeusz Łomnicki
Jerzy Burski

Michał Tarkowski
Witek

Piotr Cieślak
Michalak

Wiesław Wójcik
Jodła

Krystyna Zachwatowicz
Hanka Tomczyk

Magda Teresa Wójcik
Editor

Bogusław Sobczuk
TV Editor

Leonard Zajączkowski
Leonard Zajączkowski, Agnieszka's DP

Jacek Domański
Sound Man

Zdzisław Kozień
Agnieszka's Father

Irena Laskowska
Museum Worker

Wiesław Drzewicz
Hanka's Husband

Kazimierz Kaczor
UB Colonel

Ewa Ziętek
Colonel's Secretary

Elżbieta Borkowska-Szukszta
Blonde

Andrzej Grąziewicz
Judge

Edmund Karwański
Prosecutor

Henryk Łapiński
Marcin Pawlusiak

Jerzy Moniak
Engineer Moniak

Irena Oberska
Zakopane Houseekeper

Zbigniew Płoszaj
Chronicle Sound Man

Juliusz Roland
Mieczysław Hertz

Maciej Rayzacher
ZMP Meeting Chairman

Grzegorz Skurski
Agnieszka's Driver

Dorota Stalińska
Photojournalist in Okęcie

Krystyna Wolańska
Marysia's Guardian

Andrzej Wykrętowicz
Jan Wołodkiewicz

Feliks Falk
Film Director (uncredited)

Stanisław Frąckowiak
Party Member from Warsaw (uncredited)

Witold Holtz
Man talking with Burski in Okęcie (uncredited)

Krzysztof Kiersznowski
Party Member congratulating Birkut (uncredited)

Jarosław Kopaczewski
Worker (uncredited)

Ilona Łepkowska
Organiser of Birkut's Demonstration in Żabinka Mała (uncredited)

Stanisław Michalik
Judge (uncredited)

Mieczysław Grąbka
Chronicle Narrator (voice)

Andrzej Seweryn
Record Beating Announcer (voice)

Agnieszka Holland
Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited)