• 
  Fernando Meirelles

  regizor

• 
  Jeffrey Caine

  scenarist

• 
  Ralph Fiennes

  Justin Quayle
• 
  Rachel Weisz

  Tessa Quayle
• 
  Daniele Harford

  Miriam
• 
  Danny Huston

  Sandy
• 
  Bill Nighy

  Sir Bernard Pellegrin
• 
  Pete Postlethwaite

  Marcus Lorbeer

• 
  Ben Gardiner

  Harry Woodrow
• 
  John Keogh

  Immigration Official
• 
  Archie Panjabi

  Ghita Pearson
• 
  Donald Sumpter

  Tim Donohue
• 
  Richard McCabe

  Arthur "Ham" Hammond
• 
  Juliet Aubrey

  Gloria Woodrow
• 
  Sidede Onyulo

  Jonah Andika

• 
  Teresa Harder

  Birgit's Secretary
• 
  Nick Reding

  Crick
• 
  Jeffrey Caine

  Club Servant
• 
  Hubert Kounde

  Dr. Arnold Bluhm (as Hubert Kounde)
• 
  Gerard McSorley

  Sir Kenneth Curtiss
• 
  Keith Pearson

  Porter Coleridge
• 
  Bernard Otieno Oduor

  Jomo
• 
  Damaris Itenyo Agweyu

  Jomo's Wife
• 
  Packson Ngugi

  Officer in Morgue
• 
  John Sibi-Okumu

  Dr. Joshua Ngaba

• 
  Claire Simpson

  montaj
• 
  Alberto Iglesias

  coloană sonoră
• 
  John le Carré

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