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