Coluche

Gérard Barbier

Josiane Balasko

Jacqueline Lajoie, depressed teacher

Jacques Debary

School Director

Roland Giraud

Monsieur Meignant, unionized teacher

Charlotte de Turckheim

Charlotte, Gérard's fiancée

André Chaumeau

Educational Advisor

Jean Champion

School Inspector

Georges Staquet

Gérard's father

Claude Bertrand

Charlotte's father

Anne-Marie Jabraud

Charlotte's mother

Yvette Petit

Germaine, restaurant owner and Sophie's mother

Christian Bouillette

Clothing Store Manager

Jacques Martial

Léopold, nurse at the hospital where Jacqueline Lajoie is

Jean-Pierre Bagot

Mayor and father of Nicolas

Patrice Dozier

Clothing Store Customer

Claude Berri