The emperor
Oleg Frelikh
The empress
Zoya Barantsevich
The chamberlain
Iona Talanov
Elka, young fisherwoman
Lidiya Iskritskaya-Gardina
Elka's father, old fisherman
Vasili Kovrigin
Airplane pilot
Ivan Kapralov
Khmuriy
Vladimir Egorov
Yevgenii Gryaznov
Karl Tomskyi
Director
Vladimir Gardin
Screenplay
Heorhiy Tasin
Assistant Director
Ivan Belyakov
Production Design
Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe
Director of Photography
Boris Zavelev