| Directed by | Uli Edel |
| Written and produced by | Bernd Eichinger |
| Based on the book by | Stefan Aust |
| Co-writer | Uli Edel |
| Director of Photography | Rainer Klausmann |
| Edited by | Alexander Berner |
| Production Designer | Bernd Lepel |
| Costume Designer | Birgit Missal |
| Music by | Peter Hinderthür and |
| Florian Tessloff | |
| Associate Producer | Christine Rothe |
| Executive Producer | Martin Moszkowicz |
| Co-producers | Manuel Malle |
| Tomas Gabriss | |
| In Co-production with | Nouvelles Editions De Films and |
| G.T.Film Production | |
| Line Producer | Silvia Tollmann |
| Make-up | Waldemar Pokromski |
| Casting | An Dorthe Braker |
| Original Soundtrack | Roland Winke |
| Compositor | Michael Kranz |
| Ben Rosenkind | |
| Supervising Sound Editor | Stefan Busch |
| Special Effects | Die Nefzers |