The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus.

• Bavaria-Filmkunst
• Werner Krauss
• Mathias Wieman
• Annelies Reinhold
• Harald Kreutzberg
• Peter Martin Urtel
• Fritz Rasp
• Josef Sieber
• Harry Langewisch