Cast
- Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski
- Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski
- Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski
- George MacKay as Aron Bielski
- Alexa Davalos as Lilka Ticktin, a Polish refugee and Tuvia's love interest.
- Allan Corduner as Shimon Haretz, the brothers' old schoolteacher
- Mark Feuerstein as Isaac Malbin, an intellectual
- Tomas Arana as Ben Zion Gulkowitz, a resistance leader.
- Mia Wasikowska as Chaya Dziencielsky, Asael's love interest
- Iben Hjejle as Bella, Zus's love interest
- Jodhi May as Tamara Skidelski, a cousin of the Bielskis who had been raped by a Nazi soldier
- Kate Fahy as Riva Reich
- Iddo Goldberg as Yitzhak Shulman
- Sam Spruell as Arkady Lubczanski
- Ravil Isyanov as Victor Panchenko, Russian partisan commander, roughly based on the real life partisan figure, Nikolai Mayakov
- Rolandas Boravskis as Gramov, the second-in-command of the Russian partisans
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