Cast 40

1. 

   Kiur Aarma

   Narrator (voice)

2. 

   Jaak Kilmi

   Narrator (voice)

3. 

   Alo Kõrve

   Narrator (voice)

4. 

   Jaan Tootsen

   Narrator (voice)

5. 

   Liina Vahtrik

   Narrator (voice)

6. 

   Eduard Toman

   Narrator (voice)

7. Gerda Viira

   Urve

8. Oskar Vuks

   Jaak

9. Toomas Pool

   Toomas

10. Jaan-Joosep Puusaag

    Joosep

11. Einar Kotka

    Young Nikolai

12. Aleksandr Aug

    Joosep's Father

13. Birgit Veemaa

    Joosep's Mother

14. Esko Salminen

    Self - Historian

15. Sakari Kiuru

    Self - Finnish TV Former Head

16. Arvo Sildnik

    Self - TV Engineer

17. Edward Lucas

    Self - Writer

18. Hagi Shein

    Self - Sociologist

19. Georgi G. Potchepstov

    Self - Media Researcher

20. Voldemar Lindström

    Self - Soviet Estonian TV Program Director

21. Nikolai Haug

    Self - Inventor

22. Åke Blomqvist

    Self (archive footage)

23. Ami Aspelund

    Self (archive footage)

24. 

    David Hasselhoff

    Self (archive footage)

25. Karl Vaino

    Self (archive footage)

26. 

    Leonid Brezhnev

    Self (archive footage)

27. 

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Self (archive footage)

28. Panda Nikander

    Self (archive footage)

29. 

    Ronald Reagan

    Self (archive footage)

30. 

    Teija Sopanen

    Self (archive footage)

31. 

    Urho Kekkonen

    Self (archive footage)

32. Väinö Purje

    Self (archive footage)

33. 

    Yuri Andropov

    Self (archive footage)

34. 

    Greta Garbo

    Ninotchka (archive footage)

35. 

    Melvyn Douglas

    Count Leon d'Algout (archive footage)

36. 

    Sylvia Kristel

    Emmanuelle (archive footage)

37. Lieko Zachovalová

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

38. Aivar Võimre

    Self (archive footage)

39. Mauno Koivisto

    Self (uncredited)

40. 

    Arnold Rüütel

    Self (uncredited)

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