Otto Sander as Cassiel

Bruno Ganz as Damiel

Nastassja Kinski as Raphaela

Peter Falk as Peter Falk

Solveig Dommartin as Marion

Heinz Rühmann as Konrad

Rüdiger Vogler as Phillip Winter

Willem Dafoe as Emit Flesti

Horst Buchholz as Tony Baker

Martin Olbertz as The Dying Man

Monika Hansen as Hanna / Gertrud Becker

Lou Reed as Lou Reed

Hanns Zischler as Dr. Becker

Günter Meisner as Forger

Ronald Nitschke as Patzke

Mikhail Gorbachev as Mikhail Gorbachev

Gerd Wameling as Security Guard

Matthias Zelic as Salesman

Udo Samel as Security Guard

Aline Krajewski as Raissa

Tilmann Vierzig as Young Konrad

Antonia Westphal as Young Hanna

Ingo Schmitz as Anton Becker

Sascha Wohlatz as Teenager

Lasse Lehmann as Teenager

Marcel Jelinski as Teenager

Nils Schildhauer as Teenager

Patrick Winz as Teenager

Benjamin Winz as Teenager

Camilla Pontabry as Doria

Frédéric Darié as Maurice

Jean-Marie Rase as Jules

Lajos Kovács as Lali

Bruno Krief as Paul

Armance Brown as Paula

Henri Alekan as Captain

Hugues Delforge as Les Elastonautes

Claude Poncelet as Les Elastonautes

Susanne Jansen as Woman in the Gallery

Bob Rutman as Artist

Yella Rottländer as Winter's Angel

Alexander Hauff as Taxi Driver

Andrzej Pieczyński as Czomsky

Natan Fyodorovsky as Russian

Louis Cochet as Louis

Johanna Penski as Flower Woman

Steffi Hiller as Passerby

Eberhard Knappe as Passerby

Shefqet Namani as Shell Player

Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann as Police Officer

Nadja Engel as Woman Slapped in the Face

Daniela Nasimcova as Angel

Gunter Kelm as Museum Attendant

Heinz-Peter Graubaum as Museum Attendant

Claude Lergenmüller as Andre

Melanie Pontabry as Melanie

Alfred Sczczot as Grumpy

Esam Tolba as Fourth Gambler

Tom Farrell as Patient in Coma (uncredited)

Kora Kirby as Young Girl (uncredited)