Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Bruno S.
as Bruno Stroszek

Eva Mattes
as Eva

Clemens Scheitz
as Scheitz

Wilhelm von Homburg
as Souteneur

Burkhard Driest
as Pimp #2

Clayton Szalpinski
as Mechanic

Ely Rodriguez
as Mechanic's Assistant

Alfred Edel
as Prison Warden

Scott McKain
as Bank Teller

Pitt Bedewitz
as Pimp #3