
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

as Jean Jaurès

as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

as Franz Joseph I.

as Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow

as Alexandra

as Count Pourtales

as Leopold Graf Berchtold

as Paléologue

as Buchanan

as Erich von Falkenhayn

as Nikolaus II.

as Lichnowsky

as Michael

as Arthur Nicolson

as Gottlieb von Jagow

as Moltke

as Ladislaus of Szögyény-Marich

as Peter I of Serbia

as Alexander of Serbia

as Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

as General Nikolai Nikolajewitsch

as Jaurès' Friend

as Freiherr von Schoen

as German General

as Jules Cambon

as Viviana