Daniel Day-Lewis
— Kafka
Robert Hines
— Franz (young)
Alan MacNaughtan
— Doctor
Trevor Peacock
— Franz (old)
Jim Broadbent
— Gutling
Hugh Fraser
— Culick
Vivian Pickles
— Lily
Bernard Wrigley
— Workmen
Charlotte Coleman
— Seamstress
Rosemary Martin
— Miss Weber
Geoffrey Palmer
— The Angry Doctor
Roger Hammond
— The Fat Doctor
Benjamin Whitrow
— Lecturer in Medical School
Tessa Wojtczak
— Christina
Oona Kirsch
— Collecting Girl
Katy Behean
— Beatrice
Tony Haygarth
— Pohlmann
Sam Kelly
— One-Legged Man
Richenda Carey
— Tall Woman