John Malkovich as Abel

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Count von Kaltenborn

Gottfried John as Chief Forester

Marianne Sägebrecht as Frau Netta

Volker Spengler as Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring

Heino Ferch as SS Officer Raufeisen

Dieter Laser as Professor Blättchen

Agnès Soral as Rachel

Sasha Hanau as Martine

Vernon Dobtcheff as Lawyer

Simon McBurney as Brigadier

Ilja Smoljanski as Ephraim

Luc Florian as Prisoner of War #1

Laurent Spielvogel as Prisoner of War #2

Marc Duret as Prisoner of War #3

Philippe Sturbelle as Prisoner of War #4

Jacques Ciron as State Attorney

Patrick Floersheim as Police Captain

Caspar Salmon as Young Abel

Daniel Smith as Nestor

Ryan O'Leary as Clément

Lars Albiez as Lothar

Claude Degen as Priest

Thierry Monfray as Teacher

Jacques Brunet as Principal at School

Sylvie Huguel as Martine's Mother

Erick Deshors as Hervé

Jérôme Keen as Abel's Client

Lyèce Boukhitine as Ahmed

Christine Paolini as Nestor's Mother

Maximilian Haas as Napola Boy #1

Robert Beyer as Napola Boy #2

Norman Daugs as Napola Boy #3

Joachim Paul Assböck as Messenger Officer

Bartosz Obuchowicz as Country Boy

Małgorzata Rożniatowska as Country Boy's Mother

Piotr Grabowski as German Officer

Andrzej Szenajch as Old Napola Teacher

Lothar Pinnig as Napola Teacher

Jerzy Orłowski as Disabled Officer

Norbert Rakowski as SS Man

Ilja Zmiejew as Russian Officer

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)