 | Michel Piccoli als Mauro Ponticelli |
 | Anouk Aimée als Marta Ponticelli |
 | Michele Placido als Giovanni Sciabola |
 | Gisella Burinato als Anna |
 | Antonio Piovanelli als Quasimodo |
 | Anna Orso als Marilena |
 | Giampaolo Saccarola als Insane Brother |
 | Adriana Pecorelli als Sonia |
 | Franca Maria De Monti |
 | Paola Ciampi als Ponticelli's mother |
 | Pier Giorgio Bellocchio als Giorgio |
 | Mario Prosperi als Mario Ponticelli |
| Elizabeth Labi als Ponticelli's fiancée |
| Enrico Bergier als Ponticelli's brother |
| Mario Ravasio als Brother of Suicide |
| Gaetano Campisi |
 | Marino Cenna |
| Lamberto Consani |
| Giancarlo Sammartano als Passerby |
| Oreste Rotundo |
 | Remo Remotti |
| Marina Sassi als Friend of Giovanni |
| Rossano Weber als Fire-Eater |
| Alessandro Antonucci |
| Daria Fago |
| Natalia Fago |
| Matteo Fago |
 | Giovanni Frezza |
| Maria Pia Frezza |
| Gianluca Giusti |
| Pasquale Moscianese |
 | Carlotta Natoli |
| Daniele Piretti |
| Valerio Tozzi |
 | Vittorio Caprioli als Mauro Ponticelli (voice) |
 | Livia Giampalmo als Marta Ponticelli (voice) |
| Marco Bellocchio | Director |
| Brigitte Sousselier | Editor |
| Andrea Crisanti | Production Design |
| Silvio Clementelli | Producer |
| Nicola Piovani | Original Music Composer |
| Lia Francesca Morandini | Costume Design |
| Giuseppe Lanci | Director of Photography |
| Anna Maria Clementelli | Producer |
| Amedeo Fago | Production Design |
| Piero Natoli | Screenplay |
| Vincenzo Cerami | Screenplay |
| Marco Bellocchio | Screenplay |
| Marco Bellocchio | Story |
| Giuseppe Di Biase | Camera Operator |
| Lucilla Clementelli | Script Supervisor |
| Enzo Porcelli | Executive Producer |
| Inigo Lezzi | First Assistant Director |
| Pino Venditti | Second Assistant Director |
| Dino Di Dionisio | Unit Production Manager |
| Claudio Gaeta | Production Secretary |
| Angelo Barbagallo | Production Secretary |
| Janice Munro | Production Secretary |
| Cecilia Valmarana | Production Assistant |
| Franco Fantini | Administration |
| Alessio Gelsini Torresi | Assistant Camera |
| Maria Ruhle | Public Relations |
| Letizia Cavallini | Still Photographer |
| Firmino Palmieri | Still Photographer |
| Carmelo Agate | Assistant Production Design |
| Silvana Turchi | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Cesare Paciotti | Makeup Artist |
| Luciana Maria Costanzi | Hairstylist |
| Remo Ugolinelli | Sound |
| Giulio Viggiani | Boom Operator |
| Anna Rosa Napoli | Assistant Editor |
| Rita Algeri | Assistant Editor |
| Bruno Tempera | Property Master |
| Alberto Michettoni | Property Master |
| Ennio Di Stefano | Gaffer |
| Giancarlo Serravalli | Key Grip |
| Anita Cavallari | Seamstress |
| Marin Karmitz | Additional Dialogue |
| Pierre Gautard | Camera Operator |
| Luciano Anzellotti | Sound Effects |
| Adriano Taloni | Sound Mixer |
| Giovanni Fago | Thanks |
| Gerardo Scala | Thanks |
| Fabrizio Beggiato | Thanks |
| Marie Christine Vanden Eede | Thanks |
| Roberto Perpignani | Editor |
