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