Martina Gedeck as Ulrike Meinhof

Moritz Bleibtreu as Andreas Baader

Johanna Wokalek as Gudrun Ensslin

Nadja Uhl as Brigitte Mohnhaupt

Stipe Erceg as Holger Meins

Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Jan Karl Raspe

Vinzenz Kiefer as Peter-Jürgen Boock

Simon Licht as Horst Mahler

Alexandra Maria Lara as Petra Schelm

Bruno Ganz as Horst Herold

Heino Ferch as Herolds Assistent

Daniel Lommatzsch as Christian Klar

Sebastian Blomberg as Rudi Dutschke

Jan Josef Liefers as Peter Homann

Hannah Herzsprung as Susanne Albrecht

Tom Schilling as Josef Bachmann

Hans-Werner Meyer as Klaus Rainer Röhl

Katharina Wackernagel as Astrid Proll

Anna Thalbach as Ingrid Schubert

Volker Bruch as Stefan Aust

Jasmin Tabatabai as Hanne

Thomas Thieme as Richter Dr. Prinzing

Susanne Bormann as Petra 'Peggy' Schoenau

Michael Gwisdek as Helmut Ensslin

Hubert Mulzer as Jürgen Ponto

Alexander Held as Siegfried Buback

Bernd Stegemann as Hanns Martin Schleyer

Annika Kuhl as Irmgard Möller

Sandra Borgmann as Sieglinde Hofmann

Hannes Wegener as Willy Peter Stoll

Johannes Suhm as Thorwald 'Thorsten' Proll

Andreas Tobias as Manfred Grashof

Britta Hammelstein as Hanna Krabbe

Christian Blümel as Siegfried Hausner

Peter Schneider as Gerhard Müller

Christian Näthe as Jochen

Martin Glade as Benno Ohnsorg

Nina Eichinger as Telefonistin Springer Verlag

Sunnyi Melles as Frau Buddenberg

Hans Peter Hallwachs as Günter von Drenkmann

Joachim Paul Assböck as Günther Scheicher

Samir Fuchs as Ägyptischer Fahrer

Michael Schenk as Anwalt Hagemann

Jona Mues as Pranke

Wolfgang Pregler as Anstaltsleiter Stammheim

Kirsten Block as Frau Ponto

Ralph Kretschmar as Gruppenmitglied Jens

Bettina Lohmeyer as Telefonistin

Rainer Reiners as Polizist

Esther Seibt as Simone - Stefan Austs girlfriend (uncredited)

Johanna Bönninghaus as Danae Coulmas (uncredited)

Alexandra Rothert as Peter's girlfriend (uncredited)