Otto Sander and who starred in faraway, so close

Peter Falk (born September 16, 1927), the American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo

Rüdiger Vogler (born May 14 1942 in Warthausen near Biberach an der Riß), the German film and stage actor

Solveig Dommartin (1961-2007), the performer

William J. "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955), the American film and stage actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group

Nastassja Kinski (born January 24, 1959), the German-born American-based actress who has appeared in more than 60 films

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (; born 2 March 1931), the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991

Bruno Ganz (born 22 March 1941), the Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall

Heinz Rühmann (1902-1994), the actor

Horst Buchholz (1933-2003), the German actor

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born March 2, 1942, the American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer

Aline Krajewski, the actor, a star of Faraway, So Close!