cast
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Jason Robards
Andrei Sakharov
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Glenda Jackson
Yelena Bonner
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Nicol Williamson
Malyarov
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Frank Finlay
Kravtsov
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Michael Bryant
Syshchikov
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Paul Freeman
Pavel Leontiev
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Anna Massey
Klavdia
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Joe Melia
Sergej Kovalov
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Lee Montague
Slavsky
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Jim Norton
Roy Medvedev
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Valentine Pelka
Efrem Sakharov
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Catherine Hall
Tanya Sakharov
- John McAndrew Alyosha Sakharov
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Debbie Farrington
Lisa Sakharov
- David Midwinter Matvel Sakharov, age 10
- Craig Dickerson Matvel Sakharov, age 5
- Toni Warwick Anya Sakharov
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Eileen Way
Ruf Grigorievna
- Denyse Alexander Dr. Lydia
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Marion Bailey
Ludmilla Kovalov
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Anton Lesser
Valery Chalidze
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Norman Rodway
Psychiatrist
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Elizabeth Spriggs
Nobel Presenter
- Robert Sherman American Reporter
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Paola Dionisotti
Patient's Wife
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Avril Elgar
OVIR Administrator
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Tenniel Evans
Dean Fedorenko
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Jean Heywood
Sakharov's Secretary
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Alex McCrindle
Siberia Trainman
- John Rowe Norwegian Diplomat
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Jane Wood
Witness at Trial
- Ruth Goring Wedding Registrar
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Bernard Kay
Prosecutor
- David Landberg Reporter
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John Normington
OVIR Clerk
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Olivier Pierre
Reporter
- Tony Sibbald Reporter
- Martyn Whitby Mikhail
- John Boswall
- Christopher Guinee
- John Burgess
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Robert Gwilym
- John Cording
- Laurence Harrington
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Richard Cubison
- Sarah James
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Alan David
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Ralph Nossek
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Ron Donachie
- James Sport
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John Forgeham
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Vic Tablian
- John Golightly
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Tom Wilkinson
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Derek Lyons
Russian Guard (uncredited)