The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

Koji Yakusho
Genzo

Andrei Boltnev
Arseniy

Nikita Mikhalkov
Регинёв

Anatoliy Romashin
Kulagin

Marina Zudina
Анна

Maksim Munzuk
Niyako

Alexandr Tolubaev

Aleksandr Filippenko

Mikhail Golubovich
Ukhatiy

Olegar Fedoro
convict

Tetsuro Tamba
Tsuneiro Kamisaka

Elena Yakovleva

Guts Ishimatsu
military police officer

Akiko Kazami
Genzo's mother

Junkichi Orimoto
landowner