A significant part of the 1912 production "A Life for the Tsar" was used in this film.
Pyotr Chardynin
Director
Vasili Goncharov
Sofya Goslavskaya
Mikhail Romanov
Pavel Knorr
Susanin - indoor scenes
Vasili Stepanov
Susanin - outdoor scenes
Lidiya Tridenskaya
The nun, Mikhail Fyodorovich's mother