Jean-Christophe Brétigniere
В роли: Narrator (голос)

Irina Flige
В роли: Self - director of the Memorial Centre in St. Petersburg

Pavel Galitsky
В роли: Self - journalist, Gulag survivor (17-year sentence)

Vladimir Kantovskiy
В роли: Self - engineer, Gulag survivor (12-year sentence) (как Vladimir Kantovski)

Сергей Караганов
В роли: Self - professor, presidential advisor to Vladimir Putin

Emilia Koustova
В роли: Self - historian, Universit? de Strasbourg

Oleg Orlov
В роли: Self - chairman of the board of human rights center Memorial

Irina Ostrovskaya
В роли: Self - archivist, Memorial

Jan Plamper
В роли: Self - historian, University of London

Arseny Roginsky
В роли: Self - co-founder of civil rights society Memorial

Teodor Shanin
В роли: Self - sociologist

Иосиф Сталин
В роли: Self (хроника)