Tito Junco as General Ignacio Aguirre

Roberto Cañedo as Presidente Cámara de diputados

Tito Novaro as Diputado

Tomás Perrín as Diputado Axcaná González

Bárbara Gil as Rosario

Miguel Ángel Ferriz Sr. as El Caudillo

Ignacio López Tarso as General Hilario Jiménez

Carlos López Moctezuma as Diputado Emilio Olivier Fernández

Víctor Manuel Mendoza as General Elizondo

Fernando Mendoza as Diputado Juan Manuel Mijares

Agustín Isunza as Remigio Tarabana

Prudencia Grifell as Dueña de burdel

Kitty de Hoyos as La Mora

José Elías Moreno as Gobernador Catarino Ibáñez

Víctor Junco as General Domínguez

Narciso Busquets as Diputado

José Luis Jiménez as Doctor

Manuel Arvide as General Protasio Leyva

Noé Murayama as Mayor Segura

Luis Aragón as Militar

Xavier Loyá as Reportero

Antonio Aguilar as Coronel Jáuregui

Carlos León as Rosas

Ernesto Finance as Militar oportunista

Manuel Alvarado as Gordo

Norma Navarro as Prostituta

Lupe Carriles as Cástula, sirvienta

Ignacio Villalbazo as Jefe de porristas

Arturo Soto Rangel as Director de la Cooperativa

Jorge Arriaga as Coronel Saldívar

Ángel Merino as Vázquez, secretario de Aguirre

Elodia Hernández as Madre de Axcaná

Joaquín Roche as Mayor Canuto Arenas

Myron Levine as Embajador

Julio Bracho as Himself - Director in an introductory scene

Martín Luis Guzmán as Himself - Writer in an introductory scene

José Castillo as (uncredited)

Jorge Chesterking as (uncredited)

Rodolfo Villalba as (uncredited)

Jesús Gómez as (uncredited)