Ulrich Tukur as John Rabe

Dagmar Manzel as Dora Rabe

Steve Buscemi as Dr. Robert Wilson

Daniel Brühl as Dr. Rosen

Zhang Jingchu as Langshu

Teruyuki Kagawa as Prince Asaka Yasuhiko

Anne Consigny as Valérie Duprès

Gottfried John as Dr. Oskar Trautmann

Mathias Herrmann as Werner Fließ

Tetta Sugimoto as Nakajima Kesago

Akira Emoto as Matsui Iwane

Arata Iura as Major Ose

Shaun Lawton as Rev. John Magee

Christian Rodska as Dr. Lewis Smythe

Fang Yu as Hsianglin Han

Christoph Hagen Dittmann as Christian Kröger

Hans-Eckart Eckhardt as Bernd Franz

Togo Igawa as Fukuda Tokuyasu

Hans-Joachim Heist as Hans Scheel

Lin Dongfu as Chiang Kai-Shek