- Juliette Binoche
- Pauline de Théus
- Olivier Martinez
- Angelo Pardi
- Pierre Arditi
- Monsieur Peyrolle
- François Cluzet
- The Doctor
- Jean Yanne
- Le Colporteur
- Claudio Amendola
- Maggionari
- Isabelle Carré
- The Tutor
- Carlo Cecchi
- Giuseppe
- Christiane Cohendy
- Madame Peyrolle
- Jacques Sereys
- The old man
- Nathalie Krebs
- Madame Barthelemy
- Laura Marinoni
- Carla
- Elisabeth Margoni
- The farmer's wife
- Yolande Moreau
- Madame Rigoard
- Christophe Odent
- Monsieur Barthelemy
- Hervé Pierre
- Brig. Maugin
- Daniel Russo
- Maître Rigoard
- Richard Sammel
- Franz (leader)
- Jean-Marie Winling
- Alexandre Petit (representative)
- Paul Freeman
- Laurent de Theus
- Alain Bauguil
- Peasant in the trap
- Gérard Bayle
- Owner of the forge
- Michel Bellier
- Fugitive
- Beatrice Bertrand
- (as Béatrice Bertrand)
- Françoise Blanc
- Lucienne
- Denise Boulet
- (as Denyse Boulet)
- Didier Bourguignon
- Cholera sufferer
- Brigitte Canaan
- Denise
- Jocelyne Carmichael
- Harpy
- Dany Castaing
- Fugitive
- Joëlle Cattino
- Religious woman
- Viviane Cayol
- Sick lady
- Bruno Cécillon
- Bourgeois
- Paul Chevillard
- Giacomo
- Michel Cordes
- Sergeant
- Eric Debrosse
- Soldier
- Gérard Dubouche
- Blacksmith
- Jean-Claude Dumas
- Harvester
- René-André Fernández
- Militiaman
- Yvonne Gamy
- Grandmother
- Philippe Guégan
- Austrian agent
- Azur Guillier
- Camille (little girl)
- Jean-Paul Journot
- Harvester
- Gérard Lacombe
- Inn owner
- Antonin Lebas-Joly
- Edmond (little boy)
- Christophe Le Masne
- Martial (valet)
- Tony Lemiere
- Adrien
- Robert Lucibello
- Man in the apron
- Claire Massabo
- Madame Terasson
- Virginie Matheron
- Sick servant
- Patrick Médioni
- Austrian agent
- Carlos Moreno
- Harvester
- Georges Neri
- Old harvester
- Alexis Nitzer
- Hysterical man
- Jean-François Pages
- Austrian agent
- Henriette Palazzi
- Fugitive
- Jacques Pater
- Militiaman
- Serge Pauthe
- Police station employee
- Christophe Pierrot
- (as Christophe Pierot)
- Jacob Reymond
- Dr. Arnoux
- Lionel Robert
- Excited man
- Pascal Rozand
- Young man on the farm
- Frédérique Ruchaud
- Madame Marquerite
- Norbert Sammut
- Fugitive
- Désirée Saorin
- Blacksmith
- Joëlle Sevilla
- Religious woman
- Celita Villar
- Lady at the window
- Roselyne Vuillaume
- (as Roseline Villaume)
- Fany Watier
- Fugitive
- Michel Carliez
- (uncredited)
- Laurence Cormerais
- (uncredited)
- Gérard Depardieu
- Commissaire de Police à Manosque
- Jacques Weber
- Narrateur d'épilogue
