Friedrich Holderlin
Martin Feifel
Susette Gontard
Marianne Denicourt
Georg Hegel
Tobias Langhoff
Jacob Gontard
Ulrich Mühe
Madame Gontard d'Orville
Zofia Saretok
Lech Dyblik
Piotr Gąsowski
Mariele
Małgorzata Kalamat
Georg Hammelmann
Redbad Klynstra-Komarnicki
Zofia Merle
Michał Pawlicki
doctor Muller
Wojciech Skibiński
Isaac von Sinclair
Ulrich Matthes
camel owner (uncredited)
Paweł Burczyk
(uncredited)
Witold Gajzler
doctor Sommering (uncredited)
Krzysztof Kiersznowski
servant (uncredited)
Tadeusz Woszczyński
Mirosław Zbrojewicz
Nina Hoss
Sinclair's mother
Margit Carstensen
Henry Gontard
Matthias Faber
detective
Jochen Regelien
"Germania"
Ueli Jäggi
"Marianna"
Dieter Landuris
Friedrich Schelling
Pierre Besson
Co-Producer
Krzysztof Zanussi
Stunt Coordinator
Jacek Ryniewicz
Production Manager
Michał Szczerbic
Production Design
Andrzej Przedworski
Director
Nina Grosse
Still Photographer
Marcin Makowski
Assistant Production Manager
Beata Cybula
Catering
Tadeusz Pilich
Interior Designer
Ewa Tarnowska
Administration
Elżbieta Heleniak
Special Effects
Kazimierz Wróblewski
Stunts
Jacek Jeleń
Props
Grzegorz Rzepecki
Original Music Composer
Biber Gullatz
Joanna Jedlecka-Skrodzka
Master Lighting Artist
Jacek Kurowski
Grzegorz Piątkowski
Dariusz Lipiński
Eckes Malz
Translator
Małgorzata Guga-Majkowska
Wojciech Kocemba
Second Unit Director of Photography
Tomasz Tarasin
Joanna Doroszkiewicz
Edward Koralewski
Assistant Editor
Anna Wagner
Writer
Susanne Schneider
Casting
Magdalena Szwarcbart
Piotr Kolodziejczyk
Małgorzata Dedek
Director of Photography
Egon Werdin
Bogdan Piotrowski
Mirosław Bartosik
Makeup Artist
Waldemar Pokromski
Piotr Bujnowicz