Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers of power, in the courts of Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In parallel, it develops the fate of the Czech archivist, who will take part in the Serbian anti-Austrian branch.
Jiří Bartoška
Václav Kavan
Rudolf Hrušínský
Franz Joseph I
Jürgen Frohriep
Wilhelm II
Andrei Rostotsky
Nicholas II
Josef Vinklář
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Nelli Pshyonnaya
Alexandra Feodorovna
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
Sergei Dmitryevich Sazonov
Zora Jandová
Draga Simić
Martin Růžek
Dr. Paul Schönbeck
Josef Somr
Count Leopold Berchtold
Hans-Joachim Hanisch
Helmuth von Moltke
Svatopluk Beneš
Count Eduard von Paar
Pavol Mikulík
Raymond Poincaré
Jozef Adamovič
Lord Edward Grey
Oldřich Vízner
Ivan Olbracht
Petr Kostka
Dr. Berth Leopold Schönbeck-Mannesmann
Otakar Brousek
Oscar von Potiorek
Stanislav Zindulka
Eugen Ketterle
Jiří Klem
Jovan Jovanić
Dáša Neblechová
Kavan's Mother-in-Law
Oldřich Velen
Jiří Wohanka
Roman Hemala
Zdeněk Podhůrský
Jindřich Narenta
Jiří Strach
Ruth Reinecke
Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt
Vera Kuznetsova
Anzhelika Nevolina
Maid with a Dress
Michal Kocourek
Stanislav Lehký
Tomáš Valík
Josef Vrána
Jiří Adamíra
Narrator (voice)
Petr Pelzer
Count István Tisza (voice)
Soběslav Sejk
Count Karl Stürgh (voice)
Karel Pospíšil
Baron Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (voice)
Pavel Soukup
Lord Edward Grey (voice)
Libuše Geprtová
Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt (voice)
Rudolf Pellar
Prince Friedrich von Pourtalès (voice)
Ilona Svobodová
Maid with a Dress (voice)
Karel Hlušička
German Crown Councillor (voice)
Pavel Pípal
Russian General (voice)
Jiří Pleskot
Mitič (voice)
Boris Rösner
Adjutant to Wilhelm II (voice)
Vlastimil Zavřel
Servant of Wilhelm II (voice)
Pavel Rímský
Adjutant to Nicholas II
Josef Nedorost
German Sailor (voice)