German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Tom Schilling
as Kurt Barnert
Sebastian Koch
as Carl Seeband
Paula Beer
as Ellie
Saskia Rosendahl
as Elisabeth May
Oliver Masucci
as Antonius van Verten
Cai Cohrs
as Six-Year-Old Kurt Barnert
Ina Weisse
as Martha Seeband
Евгений Сидихин
as Major Murawjow
Mark Zak
as Murawjow Interpreter
Ulrike C. Tscharre
as Miss Hellthaler
Bastian Trost
as Franz Michaelis
Hans-Uwe Bauer
as Horst Grimma