| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Antonio Muñohierro | Crew | Art | Art Direction |
 Carter Burwell | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer |
 Ennio Morricone | Crew | Sound | Original Music Composer |
Guillermo Rosas | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
 Jana Boková | Crew | Crew | Documentation & Support |
 Jon Kilik | Crew | Production | Producer |
 Julian Schnabel | Crew | Directing | Director, Executive Producer, Writer |
Laurie Friedman | Crew | Art | Set Decoration |
Lázaro Gómez Carriles | Crew | Writing | Writer |
 María Estela Fernández | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Costume Design |
Matthias Ehrenberg | Crew | Production | Producer |
Michael Berenbaum | Crew | Editing | Editor |
Olatz López Garmendia | Crew | Production | Executive Producer |
 Reynaldo Arenas | Crew | Writing | Novel |
Salvador Parra | Crew | Art | Production Design |
 Xavier Grobet | Crew | Camera | Director of Photography |
Cunningham O'Keefe | Crew | Writing | Writer |
 Lupita Peckinpah | Crew | Costume & Make-Up | Wardrobe Assistant |
 Abel Woolrich | Cast | Actor | Hungry Inmate |
 Andrea Di Stefano | Cast | Actor | Pepe Malas |
Antonio Zavala Kugler | Cast | Actor | Stranger in Lenin Park |
 Batan Silva | Cast | Actor | Reinaldo's Father |
 Carmen Beato | Cast | Actress | Teacher |
 Claudette Maillé | Cast | Actress | Maria Luisa Lima |
 Diahnne Abbott | Cast | Actress | Blanca Romero |
 Diego Luna | Cast | Actor | Carlos |
 Eduardo Arroyuelo | Cast | Actor | Teenager #2 |
 Ewa Piaskowska | Cast | Actress | Pretty Blonde Student |
Filiberto Estrella | Cast | Dwarf | |
 Francisco Gattorno | Cast | Actor | Jorge Camacho |
 Giovani Florido | Cast | Actor | Young Reinaldo |
 Héctor Babenco | Cast | Actor | Virgilio Pinera |
 Javier Bardem | Cast | Actor | Reinaldo Arenas |
 Jerzy Skolimowski | Cast | Actor | Professor |
 John Ortiz | Cast | Actor | Juan Abreu |
 Johnny Depp | Cast | Actor | Bon Bon / Lieutenant Victor |
 Jorge Zárate | Cast | Actor | Prosecutor |
Julian Bucio | Cast | Actor | Violent Soldier |
 Khotan Fernández | Cast | Actor | Young Man with Bird |
 Lia Chapman | Cast | Actress | Lolin |
Lola Schnabel | Cast | Girl With Keys | |
Loló Navarro | Cast | Actress | Reinaldo's Grandmother |
Manolo García | Cast | Actor | Faustino |
 Marisol Padilla Sánchez | Cast | Actress | Margarita Camacho |
Matthias Ehrenberg | Cast | Actor | Officer at Mariel Harbor |
 Maurice Compte | Cast | Actor | Nicolas Abreu |
 Michael Wincott | Cast | Actor | Herberto Zorilla Ochoa |
 Najwa Nimri | Cast | Actress | Fina Zorilla Ochoa |
 Ofelia Medina | Cast | Actress | Landlady |
Olatz López Garmendia | Cast | Reinaldo's Mother | |
 Olivier Martinez | Cast | Actor | Lazaro Gomez Carilles |
 Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Cast | Actress | María Teresa Freye de Andrade |
 Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Cast | Actor | Reinaldo's Grandfather |
 Rene Rivera | Cast | Actor | Recruit Driver |
 Santiago Magill | Cast | Actor | Tomas Diego |
 Sean Penn | Cast | Actor | Cuco Sanchez |
 Stella Schnabel | Cast | Actress | Valeria |
 Vincent Laresca | Cast | Actor | Jose Abreu |
 Alfredo Villa | Cast | Armando García | |
René Pereyra | Cast | Actor | Antonio |
Jorge Zepeda | Cast | Actor | State Security on Beach |
Mario Oliver | Cast | Actor | Gay Inmate |
Eloy Ganuza | Cast | Actor | State Security in Lenin Park |
Olmo Schnabel | Cast | Smallest School Child | |
Vito Schnabel | Cast | Actor | Teenage Reinaldo |
Nemo Librizzi | Cast | Pedro the Bus Driver | |
Andrea Fassler | Cast | French Tourist | |
Cy Schnabel | Cast | Smallest School Child | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
