Don Lope de Aguirre
Klaus Kinski
Inés de Atienza
Helena Rojo
Daniel Farfán
Julio E. Martínez
Gonzalo Pizarro
Alejandro Repullés
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal (voice) (uncredited)
Claus Biederstaedt
Don Pedro de Ursúa (voice) (uncredited)
Lothar Blumhagen
Don Fernando de Guzmán (voice) (uncredited)
Heinz Theo Branding
Balthasar (voice) (uncredited)
Christian Brückner
Conqueror Being Beheaded (voice) (uncredited)
Michael Chevalier
Conqueror (voice) (uncredited)
Norbert Gescher
González (uncredited)
Justo González
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal
Del Negro
Inés / Flores (voice) (uncredited)
Uta Hallant
Manfred Lehmann
(uncredited)
Antonio Marquez
Don Lope de Aguirre (voice) (uncredited)
Gerd Martienzen
Gonzalo Pizarro (voice) (uncredited)
Edgar Ott
Okello (voice) (uncredited)
Uwe Paulsen
Perucho (voice) (uncredited)
Dieter Ranspach
Don Pedro de Ursúa
Ruy Guerra
Don Fernando de Guzmán
Peter Berling
Flores, Aguirre's Daughter
Cecilia Rivera
Perucho
Daniel Ades
Okello
Edward Roland
Alexandra Cheves
Armando
Armando Polanah
Director
Werner Herzog
Producer
Writer
Original Music Composer
Popol Vuh
Director of Photography
Thomas Mauch
Editor
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Sound Designer
Herbert Prasch
Hans Prescher
Production Manager
Wolf Stipetić
Production Assistant
Georg Hagmüller
Ina Fritsche
René Lechleitner
Martje Grohmann
Special Effects
Juvenal Herrera
Miguel Vázquez
Assistant Director
Gustavo Cerff Arbulú
Camera Operator
Ovidio Ore
Second Unit Cinematographer
Francisco Joán
Orlando Macchiavello
Sound Recordist
Bob Oliver
Co-Producer
Daniel Camino
Line Producer
Lucki Stipetić
Location Manager
Walter Saxer