Claudia Cardinale

Libera Valente

Bruno Cirino

Matteo Zanoni

Adolfo Celi

Felice Valente - Libera's father

Philippe Leroy

Franco Testa

Rosalba Neri

Wanda, wife of Testa

Bekim Fehmiu

Sandro Poggi

Franco Balducci

The police commissioner

Luigi Diberti

Ceccarelli, the taxi driver

Tullio Altamura

Political Internee - afterwards CLN President

Eleonora Morana

The Fascist Teacher

Rosita Pisano

Matteo's Sister

Luigi Patriarca

Carlo - Libera's son, as a boy

Marco Lucantoni

Carlo - Libera's son, as a young man

M. Vittoria Virgili

Anna - Libera's daughter

Elisabetta Virgili

Libera as a young woman / Anna - Libera's daughter, as a young woman

Mauro Bolognini