Herzog, Werner	...	(Director)
Werner Herzog, Achim von Arnim	...	(Writer)
Peter Brogle	...	Stroszek
Wolfgang Reichmann	...	Meinhard
Athina Zacharopoulou	...	Nora
Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg	...	Becker
Wolfgang Stumpf	...	Captain
Henry van Lyck	...	Lieutenant
Julio Pinheiro	...	Gypsy
Florian Fricke	...	Pianist
Heinz Usener	...	Doctor
Achmed Hafiz	...	Greek resident
Jannakis Frasakis	...
Eleni Katerinaki	...
Katerinaki	...
Julie Pinheiro	...
Werner Herzog	...	Soldier (uncredited)
Stavros Xarhakos	...	Original Music Composer
Thomas Mauch	...	Director of Photography
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus	...	Editor
Nicholas Triandafyllidis	...	Production Manager
Martje Grohmann	...	Assistant Director
Herbert Prasch	...	sound

Summary: On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There's little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates inscriptions on ancient tablets found in the fortress, Meinhart devises traps for cockroaches, Nora helps Stroszek make fireworks using gunpowder from grenades in the depot. Slowly, in the heat and torpor, Stroszek goes mad, drives the others from the fortress, and threatens the city with blowing up the depot. With care, the German command must figure out how to get him down.