Richard Berry as Pierre Zakar

Claudia Cardinale as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

Omar Sharif as Hagop Zakarian

Jacques Villeret as Alexandre Pagès

Zabou Breitman as Astrid Setian

Nathalie Roussel as Gayane

Diane Bellego as Carole

Jacky Nercessian as Apkar

Isabelle Sadoyan as Anna

Sylvie Joly as Georgette Sylva

Cédric Doucet as Azad age 7

Tom Ponsin as Azad age 12

Stéphane Servais as Azad age 20

Danièle Lebrun as Alexandre's mother

Ginette Garcin as Madame Crespel

Ève Ruggieri as Self

Maurice Chevit as Nazareth

Jean-Pierre Delage as Doctor Philibert

Henry Djanik as Actor in the play

André Julien as Druggist Anzani

Philippe Dehesdin as

Raoul Curet as

Jean-Gabriel Nordmann as

Pierre-Olivier Faïs as

Nicolas Vacaro as Tigrane

Christophe Combettes as

Alexis Tomassian as Adrien, Pierre Zakar's son

Jennifer Bostroem as

Jacques Ciron as

Bernard Spiegel as

Pierre Belot as

Marie Verdi as

Bernard Bireaud as

Gérard Dessalles as

Salah Teskouk as

Stéphane Slima as Actor in the play

Nicole Gueden as

Pascale Quelfennec as

Étienne Bartholomeus as

Jean-Michel Molé as

Véronique Kapoyan as

Brigitte Barry as

Dorothée Picard as

Bernard Musson as Butler

Henri Verneuil as Priest in an Armenian church (uncredited)