Robert Stadlober was born in 1982 in the Austrian province of Styria and took his first steps in show business at the age of eleven. He began behind the camera, however, supplying the dubbing voice of Eammon Ewans in Neil Jordan's THE BUTCHER BOY (1997), for instance. He starred in his first TV productions two years later, "Ausweglos" and "Nach uns die Sintflut," thus paving the way for a successful acting career.

Among his most impressive performances on television was his lead role as the murderous youth in the "Mörderkind" episode of POLIZEIRUF 110 (1998) directed by Matti Geschonneck. In 1998 Stadlober added Leander Haussmann's hit comedy SONNENALLEE to his credits and in 2000 in Hans-Christian Schmid's CRAZY. In 2001 Stadlober starred alongside Jana Pallaske in Vanessa Jopp's young-adult drama ENGEL & JOE.This role won him the best lead actor award at the Montreal World Film Festival.

Last year he starred opposite Otto Sander in Goran Rebic's DONAU (2003). Also completed in 2003 was the historical feature film UN GESTO DI CORAGGIO, which he shot in Italy with Tobias Moretti.

In addition to his acting career, Stadlober is also a songwriter, guitarist and singer in the indie rock band "Gary," whose first album was released in 2002.

Kostja Ullmann was born in 1984 and lives in Hamburg. He began his stage career at the age of eleven at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg, the Komödie Winterhuder Fährhaus a.o. In 1996 he took on a role in "Alphateam" under the direction of Norbert Schulze Jr., and also starred in Oleg Skworzow's short film "Das Rennen." After a number of appearances in episodes of various TV series, he was given a recurring role in "Zwei Männer am Herd" in 1999/2000, after which he appeared in Till Endemann's short film"Strandnähe" (1999) and Johannes Fabrick's "Albtraum einer Ehe" (2000).

The following year he was cast in "Stahlnetz – Das gläserne Paradies," an episode of "Grossstadtrevier," and in "Das Duo – Tod am Strand." In 2002 he was seen in an episode of "Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall: Das vierte Gebot," Peter Timm's "Familie XXL" and "SOKO Leipzig." Among Ullmann's TV productions of 2003 are "DerElefant – Mord verjährt nie," the Tatort episode "Alte Rechnungen" and "Mein Weg zu dir heisst Liebe." In 2004 he appeared in the short film "Schwarze Erdbeeren" and made his feature film debut in Summer Storm.

Alicija Bachleda-Curu was born in Tampico, Mexico, in 1983. She has long been a star in her native Poland and regularly graces the title pages of Polish lifestyle magazines. In addition to her acting career, she is also a successful singer who released an album, "Klimat," (Universal Music Poland) in 2002.

She has won numerous awards at music festivals and has also starred in a number of stage productions. Bachleda-Curu made her first appearance in a foreign feature film alongside Tom Schilling in Michael Gutmann's HERZ IM KOPF (2002), which was also produced by Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion. She also played one of the lead roles in Andrzej Wajda's epic PAN TADEUSZ (1998), which drew about six million viewers to theaters, making it one of the most successful Polish films ever.

Bachleda-Curus' other TV productions include Mikolaj Grabowski's "The Phantom Man-Animal," P. Komorowski's series"Sisyphean Labours" and "For Better or Worse" by Teresa Kotlarczyk and Maciej Dejczer. Jerzy Wojcik also cast her in his Polish film WROTA EUROPY (1999).