Sam Neill

Marian

Christopher Cazenove

Tadek Sobański

Lisa Harrow

Wanda

John Welsh

Priest

Maurice Denham

Sapieha

Cezary Morawski

Karol Wojtyła

Daniel Olbrychski

Captain

Maja Komorowska

Nun

Izabela Olszewska

Andrzej Łapicki

German Officer

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Mieczysław Kotlarczyk

Piotr Fronczewski

Palitsch

Maciej Robakiewicz

Tadeusz Bradecki

Marek Kondrat

Policeman

Jerzy Stuhr

Engineer

Jerzy Zelnik

Jerzy Nowak

Professor

Liliana Komorowska

Nun

Anna Milewska

Janusz Gajos

Andrzej Hudziak

Warren Clarke

Władek

Jonathan Blake

Jozef

Kathleen Byron

Tadek's Mother

John Franklyn-Robbins

Curate

Carol Gillies

Wladek's Wife

Philip Latham

Chaplain

Emma Relph

Magda

Susan Dutton

Activist

Rupert Frazer

1st Security Officer

Michael Jayston

Narrator (voice)

Georgine Anderson

Woman

Kazimierz Borowiec

Wladek's Father (Christ in the Passion)

Simon Dutton

Assistant

Anne Dyson

Wladek's Mother

Kazimierz Kursa

Father Kolbe

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

Priest from Warsaw

Matthew Long

Official

Martin Milman

Timothy Morand

Operator

Geoffrey Russell

Curate

Andrew Seear

Stefan

Philip Trewinnard

Investigating Official

Andrzej Żarnecki

Karol Wojtyla's Father

Małgorzata Zajączkowska

Nun (uncredited)