Giorgio Bassani as Poet Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Renato Guttuso as Prose Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Giuseppe Bertolucci as Narrator (voice)

Vittorio Magrelli as Narrator (voice)

Pier Paolo Pasolini as Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro as Self (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle as Self (archive footage)

Yuri Gagarin as Self (archive footage)

Giovanni Guareschi as Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren as Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)

Alighiero Noschese as Self (archive footage)

John XXIII. as Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as Self (archive footage)

Ninetto Davoli as Self (archive footage)

Franco Citti as Self (archive footage)

Laura Betti as Self (archive footage)