Nikolai Cherkasov

as Czar Ivan IV

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

Serafima Birman

as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Mikhail Nazvanov

as Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Mikhail Zharov

as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosii Buchma

as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

as Fyodor Basmanov

Pavel Kadochnikov

as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky