 | Jeremy Irons als Raimund |
 | Mélanie Laurent als Young Estefania |
 | Jack Huston als Amadeu |
 | Martina Gedeck als Mariana |
 | Tom Courtenay als Older João Eca |
 | August Diehl als Young Jorge O'Kelly |
 | Bruno Ganz als Older Jorge O'Kelly |
 | Lena Olin als Older Estefania |
 | Beatriz Batarda als young Adriana |
 | Marco D'Almeida als Young João |
 | Christopher Lee als Father Bartholomeu |
 | Charlotte Rampling als Older Adriana |
 | Nicolau Breyner als Da Silva |
 | Jane Thorne als Older Clotilde |
 | Burghart Klaußner als Judge Prado |
 | Adriano Luz als Mendez |
 | Filipe Vargas als Young Father Bartholomeu |
 | Ana Lúcia Palminha als Young Clotilde |
 | João Lagarto als Border Police Sergeant |
 | José Wallenstein als Pide Agent |
 | Eloy Monteiro als Professor |
 | Joaquim Leitão als Principal |
| Jean Pierre Cornu als Shopkeeper |
 | Hanspeter Müller als Mr Kagi |
 | Dominique Devenport als Natalie |
 | Max Hubacher als Another Student |
| Marçal Godinho als Gardener |
| Helena Afonso als Maria Prado |
 | Bruno Salgueiro als Kicking Young Man |
 | Maria d'Aires als Spitting Woman |
| Jorge Veríssimo als Men's Outfitter |
 | Sarah Spale als Catarina Mendez (as Sarah Bühlmann) |
 | Raquel Cipriano als (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 |
| Ralph Thiekötter | Sound Re-Recording Assistant |
