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                                    Ian Charleson
Ivan Bucharensky - 'Kyril'
 
                                    Edward Woodward
Michael Royston
 
                                    Joss Ackland
'C'
 
                                    Richard E. Grant
Laurence Sculby
 
                                    John McEnery
Loshkevoi
 
                                    Denholm Elliott
Povin
 
                                    Peter Vaughan
Marshal Stanov
 
                                    Espen Skjønberg
General Michaelov
 
                                    James Laurenson
Sikarov
 
                                    Sven-Bertil Taube
Stolynovitch
 
                                    Catherine Neilson
Emma
 
                                    Hugh Fraser
Peter Jackson
 
                                    Peter Wight
Evans
 
                                    Dermot Crowley
Carter
 
                                    James Cosmo
Bonham
 
                                    Hugh Ross
Detective Fitzgerald
 
                                    Terence Harvey
Chairman - Magistrate's Court
 
                                    Antony Carrick
Head of Staff
 
                                    Geff Francis
Rastafarian
 
                                    Julie Neubert
Woman Patient