Nuno Lopes as Sargento Francisco Xavier

Soraia Chaves as Martírio

Marisa Paredes as D. Filipa Sanches

John Malkovich as General Wellington

Carloto Cotta as Tenente Pedro de Alencar

Victoria Guerra as Clarissa

Marcello Urgeghe as Major Jonathan Foster

Jemima West as Maureen

Afonso Pimentel as Zé Maria

Miguel Borges as Manuel Penabranca

Mathieu Amalric as Barão Marbot

Melvil Poupaud as Marechal Massena

Filipe Vargas as Vicente de Almeida

Adriano Luz as Bordalo

João Arrais as Idiot

Elsa Zylberstein as Irmã Cordélia

Vincent Perez as Lévêque

Albano Jerónimo as Abade

Gonçalo Waddington as Zanaga / Espião

Catherine Deneuve as Severina

Isabelle Huppert as Cosima Pia

Michel Piccoli as Leópold Scheitzer

Chiara Mastroianni as Hussardo

Malik Zidi as Octave Ségur

Maria João Bastos as Maria de Jesus Almeida

Joana de Verona as Brites

Victor Gonçalves as Ajudante

Pedro Lacerda as Soldado Francês

Ricardo Aibéo as Sentinela

Miguel Monteiro as Capitão Saavedra

Elmano Sancho as Soldado Francês

Manuel Wiborg as Ti Miguel

Paulo Pires as Alberto

Dmitry Bogomolov as Polaco

João Saboga as Chefe