• 
  Philip Saville

  regizor

• 
  Kit Hesketh-Harvey

  scenarist

• 
  Kieran Bew

  Hans Christian Andersen
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  Flora Montgomery

  Jenny
• 
  Edward Atterton

  Printul Christian al Danemarcei
• 
  Patrick Barlow

  Plopqvist
• 
  Steven Berkoff

  Meisling
• 
  Mark Dexter

  Edward

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  James Fox

  Jonas Collin
• 
  Hugh Bonneville

  Publisher
• 
  Simon Callow

  Charles Dickens
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  Carolyn Pickles

  Mrs. Dickens
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  Alison Steadman

  Mrs. Meisling
• 
  Jeff Caster

  Shipping company official
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  Mathieu Carrière

  Otto

• 
  Joe Prospero

  Francis Dickens
• 
  Tamsin Egerton

  Kate Dickens
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  Miranda Pleasence

  Gypsy Washerwoman
• 
  Esther Seibt

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