Pierre Arditi

Monsieur Peyrolle

François Cluzet

Doctor

Jean Yanne

Hawker

Isabelle Carré

Governess

Claudio Amendola

Maggionari

Gérard Depardieu

Police commissioner of Manosque

Christiane Cohendy

Madame 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

Old man

Elisabeth Margoni

Farmer's Wife

Nathalie Krebs

Madame Barthelemy

Christophe Odent

Monsieur Barthelemy

Jean-Marie Winling

Alexandre Petit

Michel Bellier

Fugitive

Stéphane Boucher

Yvonne Gamy

Grandmother

Joëlle Sevilla

Religious Woman

Michèle Addala

Alain Bauguil

Peasant in the trap

Gérard Bayle

Owner of the forge

Denise Boulet

Didier Bourguignon

Cholera sufferer

Dany Castaing

Fugitive

Bruno Cécillon

Bourgeois

Paul Chevillard

Giacomo

Michel Cordes

Sergeant

Isabelle Dangerfield

Eric Debrosse

Soldier

Gérard Dubouche

Blacksmith

Jean-Claude Dumas

Harvester

Jean-Michel Fête

Florence Hautier

Christophe Le Masne

Martial, valet

Robert Lucibello

Man in the apron

Claire Massabo

Madame Terrasson

Carlos Moreno

Harvester

Alexis Nitzer

Hysterical man

Dominique Noé

Jean-François Pagès

Austrian agent

Henriette Palazzi

Fugitive

Christine Paolini

Jacques Pater

Militiaman

Serge Pauthe

Police station employee

Anne-Marie Ponsot

Yves Pujol

Julien Rivière

Lionel Robert

Excited man

Pascal Rozand

Young man on the farm

Frédérique Ruchaud

Madame Marquerite

Désiré Saorin

Blacksmith

Roselyne Vuillaume

Jacques Weber

Epilogue narrator

Laurence Cormerais

(uncredited)