Giancarlo Giannini as Guzmán de Alfarache

Enrico Montesano as Lazarillo de Tormes

Vittorio Gassman as Marquis Felipe de Aragona

Nino Manfredi as The blind wanderer

Giuliana De Sio as Rosario, the prostitute

Bernard Blier as The exploiter of prostitutes

Paolo Hendel as The tutor

Vittorio Caprioli as mozzafiato

Enzo Robutti as The captain of the ship

Blanca Marsillach as Ponzia

María Casanova as The pregnant woman

Juan Carlos Naya as The pottery seller

Claudio Bisio as The leader of the mutineers

Sal Borgese as The boatswain

Enio Drovandi as The friar on the gallows

Sabrina Ferilli as A young prostitute, daughter of the exploiter

Adriano Chiaramida as

Germán Cobos as Theatrical impresario

Nicoletta Della Corte as

Alexandra Fierro as

Jesús Guzmán as The jeweler

Cris Huerta as The blacksmith

Sabrina Knaflitz as

Patrizia La Fonte as Marquise

Eduardo MacGregor as

Antonello Orru as

Lino Salemme as

Enrique Escudero as

Blaki as

Gaetano R. Capillo as

Adriano Cappelli as

Donatella Ceccarello as

Luisa Armenteros as Donna petita (uncredited)

Luis Barboo as (uncredited)

Giovanni Cianfriglia as (uncredited)

Sixto Cid as Guzman's father (uncredited)

Alfonso del Real as The Executioner (uncredited)

Aldo Sambrell as The Fencer (uncredited)