"A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies."
Harry Baer
as Rudolf Mann
Hark Bohm
as Gerhard Gast
Margit Carstensen
as Petra Vielhaber
Eddie Constantine
as P. J. Lurz
Jürgen Draeger
as Hans Vielhaber
Udo Kier
as Edgar Gast
Volker Spengler
as August
Hanna Schygulla
as Susanne Gast
Bulle Ogier
as Hilde Krieger
Günther Kaufmann
as Franz Walsch
Claus Holm
as Opa Gast
Raúl Gimenez
as Paul
Lilo Pempeit
as Mutter Gast
Y Sa Lo
as Ilse Hoffmann
Vitus Zeplichal
as Bernhard von Stein
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rudi Dutschke
Juliane Lorenz
as Job Placement Counselor (uncredited)
Peer Raben
as (uncredited)
Karsten Voigt
Executive Producer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director
Art Direction
Editor
Original Music Composer
Producer
Production Design
Screenplay
Hans-Günther Bücking
Assistant Camera
Milan Bor
Sound
Director of Photography
Diana Elephant
Assistant Director
Karin Viesel
Assistant Editor
Hartmut Eichgrün
Joachim Schulz
Pyrotechnician
Production Assistant
Production Manager
Mel Kutbay
Sound Effects Editor
Fred Bräutigam
Anni Nöbauer
Makeup Artist
Jean-Luc Marie
Alexander Witt
Lothar Tropp
Camera Operator