Casting | Rôle |
|---|
| Александр Соловьёв | "Ygrek", aka Kostya |
| Эммануил Виторган | John Vasilyevich Brockhaus, former theater actor |
| Larisa Kuznetsova | nurse Galya |
| Александр Фатюшин | Professor, head physician of a mental hospital |
| Готлиб Ронинсон | old doctor |
| Юльен Балмусов | KGB chief |
| Sergei Agapitov | Chirik, a squeaky alcoholic |
| Сергей Рубеко | orderly |
| Людмила Гнилова | Nurse Barbara |
| Сергей Серов | Zabelin, a man with "voices in his head" |
| Константин Григорьев | "Miklukho-Maclay", schizophrenic |
| Нина Русланова | saleswoman in a grocery store |
| Владимир Анисько | Gennady Stepanovich, director of a grocery store |
| Юрий Чернов | plainclothes policeman |
| Евгений Редько | Ygrek's former colleague |
| Олег Щетинин | a general attacked by a hypnotized policeman |
| Maria Burkova | Tamara, the brunette in the restaurant |
| Елена Галибина | blonde in a restaurant |
| Валерий Кисленко | military |
| Анатолий Мамбетов | bald cook, moonlighting as a nurse and a welder |
| Елена Скороходова | prostitute |
| Юрий Думчев | fat man in a diner, "racketeer" |
