Jeremy Irons

Raimund

Mélanie Laurent

Young Estefania

Jack Huston

Amadeu

Martina Gedeck

Mariana

Tom Courtenay

Older João Eca

August Diehl

Young Jorge O'Kelly

Bruno Ganz

Older Jorge O'Kelly

Lena Olin

Older Estefania

Beatriz Batarda

young Adriana

Marco D'Almeida

Young João

Christopher Lee

Father Bartholomeu

Charlotte Rampling

Older Adriana

Nicolau Breyner

Da Silva

Jane Thorne

Older Clotilde

Burghart Klaußner

Judge Prado

Adriano Luz

Mendez

Filipe Vargas

Young Father Bartholomeu

Ana Lúcia Palminha

Young Clotilde

João Lagarto

Border Police Sergeant

José Wallenstein

Pide Agent

Eloy Monteiro

Professor

Joaquim Leitão

Principal

Jean Pierre Cornu

Shopkeeper

Hanspeter Müller

Mr Kagi

Dominique Devenport

Natalie

Max Hubacher

Another Student

Marçal Godinho

Gardener

Helena Afonso

Maria Prado

Bruno Salgueiro

Kicking Young Man

Maria d'Aires

Spitting Woman

Jorge Veríssimo

Men's Outfitter

Sarah Spale

Catarina Mendez (as Sarah Bühlmann)

Raquel Cipriano

(Uncredited)

Bille August

Director

Pascal Mercier

Novel

Kerstin Ramcke

Producer

Peter Reichenbach

Producer

Filip Zumbrunn

Director of Photography

Hansjörg Weißbrich

Editor

Augusto Mayer

Production Design

Monika Jacobs

Costume Design

Dominique Steiner-Studinka

Property Master

José Carlos Vitorino

Property Master

Luís Lacerda

Lead Painter

Adrian Baumeister

Dialogue Editor

Tobias Fleig

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Rainer Heesch

Sound Designer

Andreas Otto

Boom Operator

Carsten Richter

Foley

Stefan Soltau

Sound Effects Editor

Björn Wiese

Sound Effects Editor

Tatjana Jakob

Supervising Sound Editor

Tatjana Jakob

Dialogue Editor

Marcel Stucki

Special Effects

Manfred Büttner

Visual Effects Supervisor

David Chan Cordeiro

Stunt Coordinator

Peter Demmer

Gaffer

Sam Emerson

Still Photographer

Sebastian Meuschel

Camera Operator

Corinna Glaus

Casting

Patrícia Vasconcelos

Casting

Bela Taborda

Transportation Captain

Annette Focks

Original Music Composer

Günther Russ

Producer

Ana Costa

Co-Producer

Benjamin Seikel

Co-Producer

Paulo Trancoso

Co-Producer

Michael Lehmann

Associate Producer

Michael Steiger

Associate Producer

Dieter Stempnierwsky

Line Producer

Eric Fischer

Executive Producer

Daniel Baur

Executive Producer

Kevin Scott Frakes

Executive Producer

Oliver Simon

Executive Producer

Jeremy Zimmermann

Casting

Sano de Perpessac

Makeup Artist

Sano de Perpessac

Hairstylist

Jekaterina Oertel

Makeup Artist

Linda DeVetta

Makeup Artist

Annette Focks

Conductor

Greg Latter

Screenplay

Ulrich Herrmann

Screenplay

Gerardo Fernandes

Production Consultant

Ralph Thiekötter

Sound Re-Recording Assistant