| Director: | Fernando Meirelles |
| Assistant director: | Richard Styles |
| Script supervisor: | Susanna Lenton |
| Screenplay: | Jeffrey Caine |
| based on: | John Le Carré (Buch) |
| Director of photography: | César Charlone |
| Production design: | Mark Tidesley |
| Set design: | Christian Schäfer (Art Director) |
| Costume design: | Odile Dicks-Mireaux |
| Make-up artist: | Christine Blundell |
| Editing: | Claire Simpson |
| Sound: | Stuart Wilson |
| Audio mixing: | Michael Prestwood Smith, Sven Taits |
| Music: | Alberto Iglesias |
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| Cast: | |
| Ralph Fiennes | Justin Quayle |
| Rachel Weisz | Tessa Quayle |
| Hubert Koundé | Arnold Bluhm |
| Danny Huston | Sandy Woodrow |
| Daniele Harford | Miriam |
| Bill Nighy | Sir Bernard Pellegrin |
| Donald Sumpter | Tim Donohue |
| Archie Panjabi | Ghita Pearson |
| Nick Reding | Crik |
| Gerard McSorley | Sir Kenneth Curtiss |
| Pete Postlethwaite | Lorbeer |
| Richard McCabe | Arthur Hammond |
| Sidede Onyulo | Jonah Andika |
| Eva Plackner | Schülerlotse |
| Anneke Kim Sarnau | Birgit |
| John Keogh | Beamter |
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| Production company: | Potboiler Productions Ltd. (London) |
| in co-production with: | Scion Films Productions Ltd. (London), Babelsberg Film GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg) |
| in association with: | Blue Sky Films (Nairobi) |
| Producer: | Simon Channing Williams |
| Co-Producer: | Tracey Seaward, Henning Molfenter, Thierry Potok |
| Unit production manager: | Sonja B. Zimmer |
| Location manager: | Christopher Doll |
| Production coordinator: | Anne Helmer |
| Shoot: | 05.2004-: Berlin, Kenia, London |
| Original distributor: | Kinowelt Filmproduktion GmbH (Leipzig) |
| Length: | 3530 m, 129 min |
| Format: | 35mm |
| Picture/Sound: | Farbe, Dolby DTS |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung: 03.01.2006, 104764, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Kinostart (USA): 31.08.2005; Erstaufführung: 09.09.2005, Venedig, IFF - Wettbewerb; Kinostart (DE): 12.01.2006 |
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