Lil Dagover as Young Woman / Zobeide / Mona Fiametta / Tiao Tsien

Walter Janssen as Young Man / Frank / Gianfrancesco / Liang

Bernhard Goetzke as Death / El Mot / Archer

Hans Sternberg as Mayor

Karl Rückert as Reverend

Max Adalbert as Notary / Chancellor

Wilhelm Diegelmann as Doctor

Erich Pabst as Teacher

Karl Platen as Pharmacist

Hermann Picha as Taylor

Paul Rehkopf as Gravedigger

Max Pfeiffer as Night Watchman

Georg John as Beggar

Lydia Potechina as Landlady

Grete Berger as Mother

Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dervish / Girolamo

Eduard von Winterstein as Caliph (uncredited)

Lothar Müthel as Confidant (uncredited)

Edgar Pauly as Girolamo's Friend (uncredited)

Louis Brody as Moor (uncredited)

Károly Huszár as Emperor of China

Paul Biensfeldt as A Hi (uncredited)

Neumann-Schüler as Executioner (uncredited)

Ernst Rückert as Priest (uncredited)

Hermann Vallentin as (uncredited)

Erika Unruh as Ayesha