August, Bille, Banderas, Antonio, Close, Glenn, Irons, Jeremy, Ryder, Winona, Streep, Meryl	...	(Director)
Bille August, Isabel Allende	...	(Writer)
Meryl Streep	...	Clara del Valle Trueba
Glenn Close	...	Férula Trueba
Jeremy Irons	...	Esteban Trueba
Winona Ryder	...	Blanca Trueba
Antonio Banderas	...	Pedro Tercero García
Vanessa Redgrave	...	Nívea del Valle
Maria Conchita Alonso	...	Tránsito Soto
Armin Mueller-Stahl	...	Severo del Valle
Jan Niklas	...	Count Jean de Satigny
Sarita Choudhury	...	Pancha García
António Assunção	...	Man at Cattlemarket
Julie Balloo	...	Young Lady
Frank Baker	...	Intelligence Officer
João Cabral	...	Soldier
Miguel Guilherme	...	Soldier
Meryl Srteep	...
AntÛnio AssumpÁ„o	...	Man at Cattlemarket
Jo„o Cabral	...	Soldier
Armin Muller- Stahl	...
Franco Diogene	...	Man at the Party
José Mora Ramos	...	Soldier
Victor Rocha	...	Soldier
Carlos César	...	Ambassador's Driver
Jane Gray	...	Young Clara
Alexandre de Sousa	...	Esteban's Driver
Rogério Claro	...	Man in Club
Edith Clement	...	Midwife
Miriam Colon	...	Nana
Oscar A. Colon	...	Sheriff
Franco Diogent	...	Man at the Party (as Franco Diogene)
Pedro Efe	...	Interrogation Officer
Fran Fullenwider	...	Emer Trueba
Vincent Gallo	...	Esteban García
Sasha Hanau	...	Alba García de Satigny Trueba
Denys Hawthorne	...	Politician
Frank Lenart	...	Interviewer
Luis Pinh„o	...	Woodcutter
Lone Lindorff	...	Maid
Josh Maguire	...	Pedro Tercero García, as a Child
Joaquín Martínez	...	Pedro Segundo García (as Joaquin Martinez)
Steve Mason	...	Maestro
Jean Michel	...	Musician
Luís Pinhão	...	Woodcarver (as Luis Pinhão)
Teri Polo	...	Rosa del Valle
Vivian Reis	...	Indian Girl (as Viviana Reis)
Carlos Rodrigues	...	Postman
Manuela Santos	...	Saleswoman
Joost Siedhoff	...	Father Antonio
Hellmuth O. Stuven	...	TV General
Hannah Taylor-Gordon	...	Blanca Trueba, as a Child
Jaime Tirelli	...	Oliver
Martin Umbach	...	TV Reporter
Hans Wyprächtiger	...	Dr. Cuevas
Grace Gummer	...	Clara del Valle Trueba - as a Child
Hans Wypr‰chtiger	...	Dr. Cuevas
Edwin Leicht	...	Executive Producer
Jaime Campos	...	unit manager: Portugal
Marianne Christensen	...	Production Manager
Paula Weinstein	...	Executive Producer
Stephanie Hörmann	...	post-production manager
Mark Rosenberg	...	Executive Producer
Dieter Meyer	...	Executive Producer
António Seabra	...	production manager: Portugal
Jˆrgen Persson	...	Cinematographer
Janus Billeskov Jansen	...	Film Editor
Hans Zimmer	...	Composer
Niels Arild	...	sound
Michael Kranz	...	Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Anna Asp	...	Production Designer
Barbara Baum	...	Costume Designer
David Harris	...	Visual Effects
Horst Stadlinger	...	Make-Up Artist
Gerlinde Kunz	...	Make-Up Artist
J.Roy Helland	...	Make-Up Artist
Linda DeVetta	...	Make-Up Artist
Jean Luc Russier	...	Make-Up Artist
Nick Dudman	...	Make-up Effects
Antonio Assumicio	...

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Summary: The House of the Spirits is a generational tale of life among the ruling class in a South American country, as adapted from the Isabel Allende novel, but the political realities coexist very uneasily with the magical realism in this Bille August film. The star power alone (Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Armin Mueller-Stahl) should have cranked it up a few notches, but that's not the case. Irons is appropriately cruel as the ambitious man who achieves wealth and makes everyone around him miserable and Streep is luminous, but it's slow and ponderous all the way. --Marshall Fine