"Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia."
Peter Finch
as Umberto Nobile
Sean Connery
as Roald Amundsen
Claudia Cardinale
as Valeria
Hardy Krüger
as Einar Lundborg
Eduard Martsevich
as Finn Malmgren
Grigori Gaj
as Rudolf Samoylovich
Nikita Mikhalkov
as Boris Chukhnovskiy
Luigi Vannucchi
as Captain Zappi
Mario Adorf
as Giuseppe Biagi
Donatas Banionis
as Adalberto Mariano
Massimo Girotti
as Giuseppe Romagna Manoja
Yuriy Solomin
as Felice Trojani
Otar Koberidze
as Natale Cecioni
Boris Khmelnitsky
as Alfredo Viglieri
Yuri Vizbor
as Frantisek Behounek
Nikolay Ivanov
as Kolka Shmidt
Vladimir Smirnov
as Shelagin
Tengiz Archvadze
as Renato Alessandrini (uncredited)
Rein Aren
as Karl Eggi (uncredited)
Heinz Braun
as Reporter (uncredited)
Anatoliy Bystrov
as Rinborg's Neighbor in the Hospital Room (uncredited)
Robert Daglish
as The Reporter (uncredited)
Feliksas Einas
as Amundsen's Servant (uncredited)
Roland Engmann
as Duty Officer (uncredited)
Boris Goldayev
as Kolka Shmidt's Fellow Villager (uncredited)
Leonid Kanevsky
as Italian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Viktor Kharitonov
as Part-bit (uncredited)
Stanislav Khitrov
as Radio Operator of Icebreaker 'Krasin' (uncredited)
Irakli Khizanishvili
as Pomella (uncredited)
Eve Kivi
as The Blonde Lady (uncredited)
Boris Klyuev
Stepan Krylov
as The Boatswain (uncredited)
Vitaliy Matveyev
as Seeing Off (uncredited)
Sergey Madyanov
Galina Mikeladze
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Dmitriy Mirgorodskiy
as Caratti (uncredited)
Oleg Mokshantsev
as Pavel Ponomaryov (uncredited)
Yuriy Nazarov
as Anatoliy Alekseev (uncredited)
Bruno O'Ya
as Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Yevgeniy Orlov
as Mishka (uncredited)
Gleb Plaksin
Ernst Romanov
as The Polar Explorer (uncredited)
Paul Scofield
as Main Judge (uncredited)
Aleksey Sezeman
Valeriy Sirovskiy
as Lago (uncredited)
Nikolay Smorchkov
as The Seaman (uncredited)
Rogvold Sukhoverko
as Ringborg (uncredited)
Tamara Timofeeva
as The Woman in the Crowd of People Seeing Off (uncredited)
Andrei Vertogradov
as Radio Operator of 'Citta di Milano' (uncredited)
Luidmila Tsvetkova
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
as Straube (uncredited)
Aleksandra Yozhkina
Mikhail Kalatozov
Director
Peter Zinner
Editor
Fabio Ancillai
Sound Mixer
John Shirley
Additional Editing
Boris Artemyev
Stunts
Franco D'Andria
Set Decoration
Erick Abramjan
Camera Operator
Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni
Art Direction
Vittorio Musy Glori
Production Manager
Igor Petrov
Other
Boris Krishtul
Unit Manager
Paul Maslansky
Executive In Charge Of Production
Viktor Babushkin
Giancarlo Ceccaglia
Assistant Camera
Maksut Alyautdinov
Makeup Artist
Fausto Ancillai
Victor Freilich
Associate Producer
Boris Veselov
Natalya Meshkova
Costume Design
Dima Grizick
David Hildyard
Evgeniy Shvedov
Franco Cristaldi
Producer
Mikhail Fishgoit
Production Design
Aleksandr Zatsepin
Original Music Composer
Valerj Sirovski
Assistant Director
Alex Neiman
David Vinitsky
Winston Ryder
Sound Editor
Fernando Ghia
Yuriy Ekonomtsev
Tonino Cacciottolo
David Hawkins
Wladimir Udinzoff
Pierantonio Mecacci
Luciano Vito
Hairstylist
Roberto Cuomo
Vladimir Maron
Marina Volovich
Boris Zolin
Antonio Di Lorenzo
Assistant Editor
Angelo Mari
Richard DeLong Adams
Screenplay
Robert Bolt
Additional Writing
Ennio De Concini
Alberto Cavallone
Ennio Morricone
Leonid Kalashnikov
Director of Photography