Robert DeNiro (Chief Leslie W. Sunday) ..... Christian Brückner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Chief Carl Brashear) ..... Dietmar Wunder Charlize Theron (Gwen Sunday) .............. Katrin Fröhlich Aunjanue Ellis (Jo) ........................ ??? Hal Holbrook (Captain "Mr. Pappy") ......... Jochen Schröder Michael Rapaport (Snowhill) ................ Oliver Rohrbeck Powers Boothe (Captain Pullman) ............ Lutz Riedel David Keith (Captain Hartigan) ............. Bernd Schramm Holt McCallany (Dylan Rourke) .............. ??? David Conrad (Lt./Cmdr./Capt. Hanks) ....... David Nathan Joshua Leonard (Timothy Douglas Isert) ..... Timmo Niesner Carl Lumbly (Mac Brashear) ................. Jürgen Kluckert Lonette McKee (Ella Brashear) .............. Joseline Gassen Glynn Turman (Chief Floyd) ................. ??? Tim Monsion (Nachrichtensprecher) .......... Lothar Hinze ??? (Nachrichtensprecher aus dem Off) ...... Till Hagen ??? (Anhörungsoffizier im Fall Sunday) ..... Erich Räuker ??? (Sachverständiger vor dem Ausschuss) ... Wilfried Herbst