Harry Baer as Rudolf Mann

Hark Bohm as Gerhard Gast

Margit Carstensen as Petra Vielhaber

Eddie Constantine as P. J. Lurz

Jürgen Draeger as Hans Vielhaber

Udo Kier as Edgar Gast

Volker Spengler as August

Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Gast

Bulle Ogier as Hilde Krieger

Günther Kaufmann as Franz Walsch

Claus Holm as Opa Gast

Raúl Gimenez as Paul

Lilo Pempeit as Mutter Gast

Y Sa Lo as Ilse Hoffmann

Vitus Zeplichal as Bernhard von Stein

Daniel Cohn-Bendit as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rudi Dutschke as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Juliane Lorenz as Job Placement Counselor (uncredited)

Peer Raben as (uncredited)

Karsten Voigt as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)