Heino Ferch as Heinrich Schliemann

Mélanie Doutey as Sophia Engastromenos

Marta Joanna Chruscinski as Sophias Schwester

Adriana Altaras as Victoria Engastromenos

Gunther Gillian as Akademiker

Justus von Dohnányi as Oskar Neumann

Claudia Michelsen as Michaela Neumann

Max von Thun as Theo Glauser

Kostja Ullmann as Demetrios

Thomas Thieme as Kaiser Wilhelm I.

August Schmölzer as Otto von Bismarck

Rolf Kanies as Georgios Vimbos

Peter Gavajda as George Engastromenos