Rüdiger Suchsland as Self - Narrator (voice)

Hans Henrik Wöhler as Self - Narrator (voice)

Volker Schlöndorff as Self - Filmmaker

Fatih Akin as Self - Filmmaker

Thomas Elsaesser as Self - Film Historian

Eric D. Weitz as Self - Historian

Elisabeth Bronfen as Self - Cultural Critic

Fritz Lang as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels as Self - Politician (archive footage)