Top billed cast
- Dagmar BaltruschSelf
- Gereon Becht-JördensSelf
- Mark BremerNarrator
- Petra KehlSelf
- Alessandra Sorbello StaubSelf
- Dorothee von KügelgenSelf
- Bärbel WittenSelf
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