The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Koji YakushoGenzo | Genzo |
 Andrei BoltnevArseniy | Arseniy |
 Marina ZudinaAnna | Anna |
 Junko SakuradaUme Suzuki | Ume Suzuki |
 Tetsuro TambaTsuneiro Kamisaka | Tsuneiro Kamisaka |
 Nikita MikhalkovReginyov | Reginyov |
 Anatoliy RomashinKulagin | Kulagin |
 Zhan BaizhanbayevAlyosha | Alyosha |
 Olegar Fedoroconvict | convict |
 Fyodor KotelnikovKayur | Kayur |
 Maksim MunzukNiyako | Niyako |
 Alexandr TolubaevNot listed | Not listed |
 Mikhail GolubovichUkhatiy | Ukhatiy |
 Guts Ishimatsumilitary police officer | military police officer |
 Akiko KazamiGenzo's mother | Genzo's mother |
 Junkichi Orimotolandowner | landowner |
| MMinako OsanaiUme's mother | Ume's mother |
| AAkio SatakeFurie | Furie |
 Atom Shimojoagent | agent |
 Mikhail Remizovbandit | bandit |
 Nikolay AbrashinNot listed | Not listed |
 Mikhail BocharovNot listed | Not listed |
| MMaria KaznacheevaMasha | Masha |
 Vyacheslav MolokovBolboshka | Bolboshka |
 Yuri Platonovchief of police | chief of police |
 Vladimir KuznetsovNot listed | Not listed |
 Lyudmila ZhukovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Kazuyo AsariNot listed | Not listed |
| RR. BobrovNot listed | Not listed |
| TT. BobrovaNot listed | Not listed |