Claudia Cardinale as Libera Valente

Bruno Cirino as Matteo Zanoni

Adolfo Celi as Felice Valente - Libera's father

Philippe Leroy as Franco Testa

Rosalba Neri as Wanda, wife of Testa

Bekim Fehmiu as Sandro Poggi

Franco Balducci as The police commissioner

Luigi Diberti as Ceccarelli, the taxi driver

Tullio Altamura as Political Internee - afterwards CLN President

Eleonora Morana as The Fascist Teacher

Rosita Pisano as Matteo's Sister

Luigi Patriarca as Carlo - Libera's son, as a boy

Marco Lucantoni as Carlo - Libera's son, as a young man

M. Vittoria Virgili as Anna - Libera's daughter

Elisabetta Virgili as Libera as a young woman / Anna - Libera's daughter, as a young woman