- Tony Lemiere - Adrien Peyrolle
- Carlo Cecchi - Giuseppe
- Laura Marinoni - Carla
- Paul Freeman - Laurent de Théus
- Yolande Moreau - Madame Rigoard
- Daniel Russo - Maître Rigoard
- Richard Sammel - Franz
- Georges Neri - Old harvester
- Hervé Pierre - Brigadier Maugin
- Antonin Lebas-Joly - Edmond as a child
- Jacques Sereys - The old man
- Elisabeth Margoni - The Farmer's Wife
- Nathalie Krebs - Madame Barthelemy
- Christophe Odent - Monsieur Barthelemy
- Jean-Marie Winling - Alexandre Petit
- Michel Bellier - Fugitive
- Yvonne Gamy - Grandmother
- Joëlle Sevilla - Religious Woman
- Alain Bauguil - Peasant in the trap
- Gérard Bayle - Owner of the forge
- Françoise Blanc - Lucienne
- Didier Bourguignon - Cholera sufferer
- Brigitte Canaan - Denise
- Jocelyne Carmichael - Harpy
- Dany Castaing - Fugitive
- 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
- Philippe Guégan - Austrian agent
- Azur Guillier - Camille, little girl
- Jean-Paul Journot - Harvester
- Gérard Lacombe - Inn owner
- Christophe Le Masne - Martial, valet
- Robert Lucibello - Man in the apron
- Claire Massabo - Madame Terrasson
- Patrick Médioni - Austrian agent
- Carlos Moreno - Harvester
- Alexis Nitzer - Hysterical man
- Jean-François Pagès - Austrian agent
- Henriette Palazzi - Fugitive
- Jacques Pater - Militiaman
- Serge Pauthe - Police station employee
- Jacob Reymond - Dr. Arnoux
- Lionel Robert - Excited man
- Pascal Rozand - Young man on the farm
- Frédérique Ruchaud - Madame Marquerite
- Norbert Sammut - Fugitive
- Désiré Saorin - Blacksmith
- Celita Villar - Lady at the window
- Fany Watier - Fugitive
- Jacques Weber - Epilogue narrator
- Michel Carliez - Man With the Sabre (uncredited)
- Laurence Cormerais - (uncredited)
- Frédéric Auburtin
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Nina Companéez
- Jean Giono
- René Cleitman
- Frédérique Moidon
- Bernard Bouix
- Pierre Gamet
- Jean-Claude Petit
- Jérôme Lévy
- Alain Lévy
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