Franco Franchi as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")

Ciccio Ingrassia as Alfio (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi") / Ciccio (segment "Una boccata di fumo")

Rosalba Neri as Santuzza (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")

Franca Polesello as Lola (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")

Margaret Lee as Milena (segment "La danza delle ore")

Paolo Panelli as Marchese Achille Pozzuoli (segment "La danza delle ore")

Enrico Viarisio as Marchese Ciccillo Pozzuoli (segment "La danza delle ore")

Eugenio Cappabianca as (segment "La danza delle ore")

Daniela Igliozzi as (segment "La danza delle ore")

Mario Siletti as Professor Ferreris (segment "La danza delle ore")

Emmanuelle Riva as Lucia Rossi Perozzi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Gianni Santi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Dominique Boschero as Roberta (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Mario Colli as Sicario (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Stella Monclar as (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Paul Müller as Commissioner (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Franco Giacobini as Doctor (segment "Una boccata di fumo")

Gina Mascetti as The mother-in-law (segment "Una boccata di fumo")

Bernard Berat as (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Andrea Checchi as Antonio (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Giusi Raspani Dandolo as The grandmother (segment "Giochi acerbi) (as Giusi Raspani)

Luciana Paluzzi as The mother (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Maria Barba as (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Enzo Garinei as Psychoanalyst (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Elsa Vazzoler as Adalgisa (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Cinzia Bruno as Maria Cristina (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Roberto Ingravalle as Gian Giacomo (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Susanna Carrelli as Daniele (segment "Giochi acerbi")

Eleonora Rossi Drago as Vera (segment "Il Plenilunio")

Tomas Milian as (segment "Il Plenilunio")

Franco Balducci as Alex (segment "Il Plenilunio")

Mirella Maravidi as (segment "Il Plenilunio")

Mimmo Poli as Sicilian man (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi"

Maria Tedeschi as Woman at Award Ceremony (segment "La donna che viveva sola")

Alessandro Tedeschi as Cardinal (uncredited)

Giuliana Farnese as Mrs. Genchi (uncredited)