* Sebastian Koch as Otto John
* Heino Ferch as Werner Torgler
* Ben Becker as Hans Globke
* Hannelore Elsner as Lotte Globke
* Marie Bäumer as Gisela John
* Ulrich Mühe as General Reinhard Gehlen
* Sylvester Groth as Wolfgang Havemann
* Jürgen Prochnow as Walter Ulbricht
* Thomas Kretschmann as Markus Wolf
* Christoph Waltz as Otto John (older)