Directed by
| Alexei Gusev | ||
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
| Charles Baudelaire | ... | (poem) |
| Dino Campana | ... | (poem) |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | ... | (poem) |
| Tristan Corbière | ... | (poem) |
| Alexei Gusev | ... | (uncredited) |
| Arkadiy Ippolitov | ... | (lecture) |
| Tristan L'Hermite | ... | (poem) (as Tristan Lhermitte) |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | ... | (poem) |
| Ossip Mandelshtam | ... | (poem) |
| Adam Mickiewicz | ... | (poem) |
Cast
| Aleksandr Abdulov | ... | Gulliver (archive footage) | |
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Anne Alvaro | ... | Isidore (archive footage) |
| Mary Anderson | ... | Alice MacKenzie (archive footage) | |
| Carole André | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Linda Arvidson | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Mary Astor | ... | Mirza (archive footage) | |
| Cécile Aubry | ... | Manon Lescaut (archive footage) | |
| Michel Auclair | ... | Robert Dégrieux (archive footage) | |
| Edwin August | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Lauren Bacall | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Mireille Balin | ... | Gaby (archive footage) | |
| George Bancroft | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... | Alfred Davidson / Disko (archive footage) | |
| Freddie Bartholomew | ... | Harvey (archive footage) | |
| Wallace Beery | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Humphrey Bogart | ... | Harry Morgan / Charlie Allnut / Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg (archive footage) | |
| William Boyd | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Kitty Bradbury | ... | (archive footage) |
| Louise Brooks | ... | Marie (archive footage) | |
| Maria Callas | ... | Medea (archive footage) | |
| Roland Carey | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Jaque Catelain | ... | Michel (archive footage) | |
| Billy Chapin | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Charles Chaplin | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Julie Christie | ... | Laura (archive footage) | |
| Betty Compson | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Clyde Cook | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Jacques-Yves Cousteau | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Frank Currier | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Jean Dasté | ... | Jean (archive footage) | |
| Brad Davis | ... | Querelle (archive footage) | |
| Robert De Niro | ... | Max Cady (archive footage) | |
| Carl de Vogt | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Édouard Delmont | ... | Panama (archive footage) | |
| Alain Delon | ... | Tom Ripley (archive footage) | |
| Johnny Depp | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Albert Dieudonné | ... | Napoléon (archive footage) | |
| Kirk Douglas | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Charles Dullin | ... | Maldone (archive footage) |
| Oleg Efremov | ... | Dr. Aybolit (archive footage) | |
| Gladys Egan | ... | Dolly (archive footage) | |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... | The Black Pirate (archive footage) | |
| Gary Farmer | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Errol Flynn | ... | Captain Blood (archive footage) | |
| Henry Fonda | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Jean Gabin | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Clark Gable | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Greta Garbo | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Ava Gardner | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Judy Garland | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Giuseppe Gentile | ... | Jason (archive footage) |
| Iain Glen | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Andrey Gromov | ... | (archive footage) (as Andrej Gromov) |
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Jean-Bernard Guillard | ... | (archive footage) |
| Jean Harlow | ... | China Doll (archive footage) | |
| Katharine Hepburn | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Hitu | ... | (archive footage) |
| Miriam Hopkins | ... | Mary Rutledge (archive footage) | |
| Harry Houdini | ... | Harry Harper (archive footage) | |
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Bergliot Husberg | ... | (archive footage) |
| Charles Inslee | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Arkadiy Ippolitov | ... | Self |
| Arthur V. Johnson | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Buster Keaton | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Gene Kelly | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Klaus Kinski | ... | Lope de Aguirre / Nosferatu / Fitzcarraldo (archive footage) | |
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Lidiya Knyazeva | ... | (archive footage) |
| Pyotr Konstantinov | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Ivan Koval-Samborsky | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Burt Lancaster | ... | Lt. Jim Bledsoe (archive footage) | |
| Charles Laughton | ... | Bligh (archive footage) | |
| Zarah Leander | ... | Astree Sternhjelm (archive footage) | |
| Lila Lee | ... | Beverly West (archive footage) | |
| Vivien Leigh | ... | Lady Hamilton (archive footage) | |
| Anna Lindahl | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Holger Löwenadler | ... | Capt. Alexander Blom (archive footage) | |
| Zygmunt Malanowicz | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Nikolay Marton | ... | Voice of Poetry |
| James Mason | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Ian McKellen | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Victor McLaglen | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Robert Mitchum | ... | Harry Powell (archive footage) | |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... | Kay Weston (archive footage) | |
| Jeanne Moreau | ... | Lysiane (archive footage) | |
| Michèle Morgan | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Del Negro | ... | Brother Gaspar de Carvajal (archive footage) |
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Max Nemetz | ... | (archive footage) |
| Leon Niemczyk | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Laurence Olivier | ... | Lord Nelson (archive footage) | |
| Dita Parlo | ... | Juliette (archive footage) | |
| Gregory Peck | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Jean Peters | ... | Capt. Anne Providence (archive footage) | |
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Yevgeny Petrov-Krayevsky | ... | (archive footage) |
| Michel Piccoli | ... | Glauco (archive footage) | |
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Karl Platen | ... | (archive footage) |
| Edna Purviance | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Madeleine Renaud | ... | Yvonne Laurent (archive footage) | |
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Elena Sagrary | ... | (archive footage) |
| Roy Scheider | ... | Brody (archive footage) | |
| Sybille Schmitz | ... | Maria (archive footage) | |
| Max Schreck | ... | Nosferatu (archive footage) | |
| Sybil Seely | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Martin Sheen | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Reginald Sheffield | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Simone Signoret | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Michel Simon | ... | Le Père Jules (archive footage) | |
| Nikolai Simonov | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Victor Sjöström | ... | Terje Vigen (archive footage) | |
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Blair Slater | ... | Young Truman (archive footage) |
| Walter Slezak | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Ewan Stewart | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Gloria Swanson | ... | Sadie Thompson (archive footage) | |
| Blanche Sweet | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Gene Tierney | ... | Lucy Muir (archive footage) | |
| Ernest Torrence | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Spencer Tracy | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Liv Ullmann | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Virginia Valli | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Anastasiya Vertinskaya | ... | Assol (archive footage) | |
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Henri Vilbert | ... | (archive footage) |
| Monica Vitti | ... | Claudia (archive footage) | |
| Max von Sydow | ... | (archive footage) | |
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Peter Voß | ... | (archive footage) |
| Ada Voytsik | ... | Maryutka (archive footage) (as Ada Vojtsik) | |
| John Wayne | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Otto Wernicke | ... | (archive footage) | |
| Madeleine West | ... | (archive footage) (as Madeline West) | |
| Pearl White | ... | Pauline Marvin (archive footage) | |
| Oleg Yankovskiy | ... | Jonathan Swift (archive footage) | |
Produced by
| Lyubov Arkus | ... | producer |
| Vyacheslav Kharkov | ... | consulting producer |
Music by
| Leonid Desyatnikov | ... | (first version) |
Cinematography by
| Pavel Kostomarov | ||
Editing by
| Sergey Belik | ||
Sound Department
| Aleksei Ananyev | ... | sound |
| Vladimir Persov | ... | sound |
