Cast
- Niall MacGinnis as Martin Luther
- John Ruddock as Vicar Johann von Staupitz
- Pierre Lefevre as George Spalatin
- Guy Verney as Philipp Melanchthon
- Allastair Hunter as Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
- David Horne as Elector Duke Frederick the Great
- Fred Johnson as Prior of Erfurt monastery
- Philip Leaver as Pope Leo X
- Heinz Piper as Dr. John Eck
- Leonard White as brother and emissary of Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz
- Egon Strohm as Cardinal Aleander
- Annette Carrell as Katharina von Bora
- Alexander Gauge as Fr. John Tetzel
- Irving Pichel as Chancellor Brueck
- Hans Lefebre as Emperor Charles V
- John Wiggin as Narrator
- Henry Oscar
- Ronald Adam
- Joss Ambler
- William Abney
- Michael Maick
- Wolfgang Oelze
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