 | Sophia Loren als Giovanna |
 | Marcello Mastroianni als Antonio |
 | Ludmila Savelyeva als Mascia |
 | Galina Andreeva als Valentina |
 | Anna Carena als Madre Antonio |
 | Germano Longo als Ettore |
 | Glauco Onorato als Il reduce |
 | Silvano Tranquilli als L'operaio italiano |
 | Marisa Traversi als Donna stazione |
 | Gunārs Cilinskis als Funzionario russo |
 | Giorgio Basso |
| Gianni Bortolotto als Italian official |
 | Umberto Di Grazia |
| Giuliano Girardi |
| Dino Peretti |
 | Pippo Starnazza |
| Oleg Fyodorov als Young Russian worker (uncredited) |
| Pyotr Kolbasin |
 | Alla Budnitskaya als Uncredited |
 | Nadezhda Cherednichenko als Contadina russa (as Nadja Cerednicenko) |
| Vittorio De Sica | Director |
| Tonino Guerra | Screenplay |
| Giuseppe Rotunno | Director of Photography |
| Arthur Cohn | Producer |
| Cesare Zavattini | Screenplay |
| Adriana Novelli | Editor |
| Carlo Ponti | Producer |
| Henry Mancini | Original Music Composer |
| Carlo Palmieri | Sound |
| Renato Cadueri | Sound Mixer |
| Giantito Burchiellaro | Set Decoration |
| Franca Invernizzi | Script Supervisor |
| Giuseppe Maccari | Camera Operator |
| Carla Zamponi | Assistant Editor |
| Nadia Vitali | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Giuseppe Annunziata | Makeup Artist |
| Enrico Sabbatini | Costume Design |
| Giancarlo Ferrando | Camera Operator |
| Ada Palombi | Hairstylist |
| Piero Poletto | Production Design |
| Joseph E. Levine | Executive Producer |
| Mazzini Salvatori | Key Grip |
| Alvaro Orsini | Sound |
| Mario Van Riel | Makeup Artist |
| Gianni Cecchin | Production Manager |
| Marisa Letti | Assistant Editor |
| Marisa Fraticelli | Hairstylist |
| Tonino Guerra | Story |
| Cesare Zavattini | Story |
| Jone Tuzi | Line Producer |
| Luisa Alessandri | First Assistant Director |
| Paolo Serbandini | First Assistant Director |
| Bruno Altissimi | Unit Manager |
| Stefano Pegoraro | Unit Manager |
| Elio Manni | Unit Manager |
| Piero Servo | Assistant Camera |
| Giuliano Grasselli | Assistant Camera |
| Massimo Di Venanzo | Assistant Camera |
| Aldo Santarelli | Production Secretary |
| Enzo Nigro | Production Secretary |
| Maria Teresa Bartolelli | Production Secretary |
| Franco Di Mauro | Production Secretary |
| Vincenzo Raimondi | Administration |
| Adriana Masseroni | Seamstress |
| Berta Betti | Seamstress |
| Giuseppina Delli Carpini | Seamstress |
| Rodolfo Bramucci | Gaffer |
| Giorgi Mdivani | Screenplay |
