Also Known As:
- La puerta del cielo
- Das Tor zum Himmel
- Heaven's Gate - Das Tor zum Himmel
- A mennyország kapuja
- As Portas do Céu
- Brama nieba
- Heaven's Gate
- I cancelli del cielo
- I pyli tis Dyseos
- La porte du paradis
- Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate
- O Portal do ParaÃso
- Portti ikuisuuteen
- The Johnson County Wars
- Michael Cimino
- Michael Cimino
- Kris Kristofferson ... James Averill
- Christopher Walken ... Nathan D. Champion
- John Hurt ... Billy Irvine
- Sam Waterston ... Frank Canton
- Brad Dourif ... Mr. Eggleston
- Isabelle Huppert ... Ella Watson
- Joseph Cotten ... The Reverend Doctor
- Jeff Bridges ... John L. Bridges
- Ronnie Hawkins ... Major Wolcott
- Paul Koslo ... Mayor Charlie Lezak
- Geoffrey Lewis ... Trapper Fred
- Richard Masur ... Cully
- Rosie Vela ... Beautiful girl (as Roseanne Vela)
- Mary Catherine Wright ... Nell (as Mary C. Wright)
- Nicholas Woodeson ... Small man
- Stefan Shcherby ... Big man
- Waldemar Kalinowski ... Photographer
- Terry O'Quinn ... Capt. Minardi
- Jack Conley ... Morrison (as John Conley)
- Margaret Benczak ... Mrs. Eggleston
- Jim Knobeloch ... Kopestansky (as James Knobeloch)
- Erika Petersen ... Mrs. Kopestonsky
- Tom Noonan ... Jake
- Marat Yusim ... Russian merchant
- Aivars Smits ... Mr. Kovach
- Gordana Rashovich ... Mrs. Kovach
- Jarlath Conroy ... Mercenary in new suit
- Allen Keller ... Dudley
- Caroline Kava ... Stefka
- Mady Kaplan ... Kathia
- Anna Levine ... Little Dot
- Pat Hodges ... Jessie
- Mickey Rourke ... Nick Ray
- Kevin McClarnon ... Arapaho Brown
- Kai Wulff ... German merchant
- Steven Majstorovic ... Czech merchant
- Gabriel Walsh ... Zindel's clerk
- Norton Buffalo ... Private
- Jack Blessing ... Emigrant boy
- Jerry Sullivan ... Governor of Wyoming
- Jerry McGee ... Heaven's Gate band
- Cleve Dupin ... Heaven's Gate band
- Stephen Bruton ... Heaven's Gate band
- Sean Hopper ... Heaven's Gate band
- David Mansfield ... John DeCoy, Heaven's Gate band violinist
- T-Bone Burnett ... Heaven's Gate band
- David S. Cass Sr. ... Moustached mercenary (as David Cass)
- Paul D'Amato ... Bearded mercenary
- Peter Osusky ... Peter
- Ivan Kormanik ... Ivan
- Michael Christensen ... Juggler
- Anatoli Davydov ... Fighting Bulgarian emigrant (as Anatoly Davydov)
- Nina Gaidarova ... Bulgarian emigrant's wife
- Wally McCleskey ... Chicken fighter
- Gary Vezane ... Canton's bodyguard (as Gary 'Buzz' Vezane)
- H.P. Evetts ... Wolcott's bodyguard
- Bruce Morgan ... Miner (mercenary)
- Bobby Faber ... Class marshal (Harvard)
- Judi Trott ... Irvine's girlfriend
- Robin Bartlett ... Mrs. Lezak
- Loyd Catlett ... Morison's sentry
- Juli Erickson ... Refugee
- Les Gapay ... Extra
- Al Nazario Hunter ... Regulator
- David Lewis ... Extra
- Eric Wood ... Immigrant
- Willem Dafoe ... Extra
- Lincoln Hurst ... Harvard Undergraduate
- Norbert Weisser ... Immigrant