Nadja Uhl as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

Rainer Rother as Self - Deutsche Kinemathek Member

Nico Hofmann as Self - UFA Co-CEO

Friedemann Beyer as Self - Film Historian

Gunnar Möller as Self - Actor

Ralf Schenk   as Self - Former DEFA Member

Claudia Dillmann as Self - Deutsches Filminstitut Member

Mario Adorf as Self - Actor

Wolf Bauer as Self - UFA Co-CEO

Herbert Spaich as Self - Film Critic

Klaudia Wick as Self - Deutsche Kinemathek Member

Claudia Michelsen as Self - Actress

Tom Schilling as Self - Actor

Erich Ludendorff as Self - Army General (archive footage)

Friedrich Ebert as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Ernst Lubitsch as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Emil Jannings as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Pola Negri as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Alfred Hugenberg as Self - Businessman (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Marlene Dietrich as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Veit Harlan as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Wolfgang Staudte as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Lil Dagover as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Erich Pommer as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Konrad Adenauer as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hermann Josef Abs as Self - Businessman (archive footage)

Arno Hauke as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)