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Ken Marshall (Marco Polo), Denholm Elliott (Niccolo Polo), Tony Vogel (Matteo Polo), F. Murray Abraham (Jacopo), Anne Bancroft (Marcos Mutter), Riccardo Cucciolla (Onkel Zane), Sir John Gielgud (Doge von Venedig), John Houseman (Patriarch von Aquileia), Burt Lancaster (Teobaldo Visconti/Papst Gregor X.), Tony Lo Bianco (Bruder Nicholas), Ian McShane (Ali Ben Yussouf), Leonard Nimoy (Achmet), Beulah Quo (Kaiserin Chabi), Ying Ruocheng (Kublai Khan), Sada Thompson (Tante Flora), David Warner (Antonio 'Rustichello' Rustico), Mario Adorf (Giovanni), Kathryn Dowling (Monica), James Hong (Phags-pa), Oh Soon-Teck (Yang Zhu), Hal Buckley (Bruder William), John Dicks (Bruder Philip), Georgia Slowe (Caterina), Marilù Tolo (Fiammetta), Junichi Ishida (Prinz Chinkin), Jesse Dizon (tibetischer Mönch), Patrick Mower (Bruder Damian), Zhao Erkang (Nayan), Tetsurô Tanba (Saiamon), Agnes Chan (Mai Li), Terry Raven (Talib), Gordon Mitchell (Arnolfo), Bruno Zanin (Giulio), Renato Scarpa (Bruder Thomas), Vernon Dobtcheff (Pietro de Abano), Rossella Como (Donna Laura), Bruno Corazzari (Agostino), Corrado Gaipa (Senator), Paul Müller (Bruder Anselmo), Gino Santercole (Giuseppe), Jack Watson (Seemann), Tad Horino (der Unsterbliche)