– Count Count Montenuovo Neville Barber – Count Paar Peter Copley – Bethmann-Hollweg George Merritt – Ketterl Robert Tayman – First Adjutant Ian Ricketts – Second Adjutant Noel Davis – Austrian Ambassador (Count Szögyény) Brian Hawksley – Sir Arthur Nicolson Roy McArthur – Archduke Karl Heather Page – Archduchess Zita Clyde Pollitt – Kottwitz Melanie Peck – Maid Jay Neill – Heller N/A – Ambassador László Szőgyény-Marich Jr. German Empire Episode 2 Gemma Jones – Vicky, oldest child of Victoria Maurice Denham – Kaiser Wilhelm I Denis Lill – Fritz Basil Henson – von Moltke Geoffrey Chater – Charles Roger Hammond – Albrecht Perlita Neilson – young Queen Victoria Frank Thornton – Prince Albert Anthony Roye – Dr. Martin Antony Carrick – Dr. Wegner Sandra Clark – Wally Mike Elles – Bertie, young Edward VII Adam Cunliffe – Willy, young Wilhelm II Uncredited – Queen Augusta of Prussia Episode 3 Curt Jürgens – Otto von Bismarck Barry Foster – older Kaiser Wilhelm II Frederick Jaeger – Holstein Tony Jay – Tsar Alexander III John Barcroft – Eulenberg David McKail – Mackenzie, physician Valerie Phillips – Dona, Wilhelm II's wife Episode 13 Barry Foster – older Kaiser Wilhelm II Marius Goring – Hindenburg Michael Bates – Ludendorff Griffith Jones – Hintze Eve Pearce – Empress Dona Laurence Hardy – Prince Max Colin Baker – Crown Prince (Little Willy), son of Wilhelm II John Robinson – Müller, Admiral Geoffrey Toone – Groener Erik Chitty – Hertling, Chancellor Peter Schofield – Ebert Kevin Brennan – Count Bentick Jon Croft – Sergeant Russian Empire Episode 5 Gayle Hunnicutt – Alexandra, fiancée of Nicholas II Charles Kay – Tsar Nicholas II Patrick Stewart – Ulyanov (Lenin) Lynn Farleigh – Krupskaya, Lenin's future wife Freddie Jones – Sergei Witte, Transport Minister Jan Francis – Mathilde Kschessinska, ballerina Ursula Howells – Marie, wife of Alexander III David Collings – Paul Miliukov Isla Blair – Ella Robert Brown – Uncle Serge John Nightingale – Cousin Serge Howard Rawlinson – Constantin Mavis Edwards – Queen Victoria Kevin Stoney – Father John Denzil Ellis – Wahl John Sanderson – Young Nicholas Leila Hart – Singer Episode 6 Bruce Purchase – von Plehve Edward Wilson – Martov Michael Kitchen – Trotsky Mary Wimbush – Zasulich Paul Eddington – Plekhanov Peter Weston – Baumann David Freedman – Lieber Julian Fox – Tupuridze Raymond Witch – Martynov Svandis Jons – Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova