Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen, Dagover, Lil, Heller, Andre, Moog, Heinz, Prack, Rudolf, Rahl, Mady	...	(Director)
Karl May, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg	...	(Writer)
Helmut Käutner	...	Karl May
Kristina Söderbaum	...	Emma May
Käthe Gold	...	Klara May
Attila Hörbiger	...	Max Dittrich
William Trenk	...	Rodolf Lebius
Mady Rahl	...	Pauline Münchmeyer
Lil Dagover	...	Bertha von Suttner
Rudolf Prack	...	Sächsicher Justizminister
Rainer von Artenfels	...	Adolf Hitler
Leon Askin	...	Klotz-Sello
Marquard Bohm	...	Überhorst
Wolfgang Büttner	...	Ehrecke von Moabit
Peter Chatel	...	Horace Herzfelder
Erwin Faber	...	Napoleon Krügel
Rudolf Fernau	...	Bredereck

Summary: The second film in Hans Jurgen Syberberg s highly impressionistic German Trilogy, KARL MAY follows the last years in the life of Germany s most popular author. Karl May, a prolific and beloved writer, wrote rousing adventure tales set in America s Wild West, which mythologized a rustic lifestyle that appealed to German sensibilities and may have inspired the Nazi Party. Syberberg s meditation on May fuses theater, music, and cinema to offer a perspective on May as a man who mythologized himself as an extension of his art. KARL MAY picks up where Syberberg s Ludwig left off while prefiguring his masterpiece Our Hitler.