Marian

Sam Neill

Tadek Sobański

Christopher Cazenove

Wojtyla Karol

Cezary Morawski

Wanda

Lisa Harrow

Priest

John Welsh

Captain

Daniel Olbrychski

Sapieha

Maurice Denham

Nun

Maja Komorowska

Mieczysław Kotlarczyk

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

German Officer

Andrzej Łapicki

Izabela Olszewska

Nun (uncredited)

Małgorzata Zajączkowska

Nun

Liliana Komorowska

Palitsch

Piotr Fronczewski

Maciej Robakiewicz

Tadeusz Bradecki

Policeman

Marek Kondrat

Engineer

Jerzy Stuhr

Jerzy Zelnik

Professor

Jerzy Nowak

Anna Milewska

Janusz Gajos

Andrzej Hudziak

Władek

Warren Clarke

Jozef

Jonathan Blake

Tadek's Mother

Kathleen Byron

Curate

John Franklyn-Robbins

Wladek's Wife

Carol Gillies

Chaplain

Philip Latham

Magda

Emma Relph

1st Security Officer

Rupert Frazer

Narrator (voice)

Michael Jayston

Woman

Georgine Anderson

Wladek's Father (Christ in the Passion)

Kazimierz Borowiec

Assistant

Simon Dutton

Wladek's Mother

Anne Dyson

Priest from Warsaw

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko

Official

Matthew Long

Operator

Timothy Morand

Curate

Geoffrey Russell

Stefan

Andrew Seear

Investigating Official

Philip Trewinnard

Karol Wojtyla's Father

Andrzej Żarnecki