On screen
Cast
42 credited performers
Burghart Klaußner
Bertolt Brecht
Tom Schilling
Young Bertolt Brecht
Adele Neuhauser
Helene Weigel
Trine Dyrholm
Ruth Berlau
Lou Strenger
Young Helene Weigel
Bertolt Brecht
Himself (archive footage)
Petr Stach
Singer and hurdy gurdy
Helmut Zhuber
Latin teacher Dr. Gebhard
Mala Emde
Paula Banholzer
Franz Hartwig
Young Caspar Neher
Markus Hering
Brecht's Father
Kerstin Thielemann
Marie Röcker
Artwork unavailable
Stella Adorf
Sophie Brecht
Thimo Meitner
Walter Brecht
Hannes Wegener
Dr. Lion Feuchtwanger
Friederike Becht
Marianne Zoff
Filip Čáp
Camillus Recht
Manuel Zschunke
Arnolt Bronnen
Artwork unavailable
Jessica McIntyre
Marta Feuchtwanger
Artwork unavailable
Philipp Schenker
Herbert Jhering
Leonie Benesch
Young Elisabeth Hauptmann
Anatole Taubman
Ernst Josef Aufricht
Artwork unavailable
Oscar Olivo
Kurt Weill
Artwork unavailable
Ole Eisfeld
Harald Paulsen
Artwork unavailable
Paula Banholzer
Herself (archive footage)
Franz Dinda
Egon Monk
Laura de Boer
Isot Kilian
Maria Dragus
Regine Lutz
Ernst Stötzner
Caspar Neher
Artwork unavailable
Matthias Rheinheimer
Paul Albert Krumm
Theo Lingen
Himself (archive footage)
Vincent Redetzki
Martin Pohl
Karolina Horster
Käthe Rülicke
Artwork unavailable
Michal Dudek
Palitzsch
Anna Herrmann
Käthe Reichel
Artwork unavailable
Marie Luise Stahl
Angelika Hurwicz
Artwork unavailable
Jaroslava Laufenová
Elisabeth Hauptmann
Thomas Meinhardt
Wilhelm Girnus
Maximilian Klas
Manfred Wekwerth
Petra Bučková
Gerda Goedhart
Artwork unavailable
Jan Šantroch
Kamper
Götz Schubert
Ernst Busch