Sophia Loren as Cesira

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michele Di Libero

Raf Vallone as Giovanni

Eleonora Brown as Rosetta

Carlo Ninchi as Filippo, il padre di Michele

Andrea Checchi as un fasciste

Pupella Maggio as un fermier

Emma Baron as Maria

Antonella Della Porta as La madre impazzita

Bruna Cealti as une évacuée

Luciano Pigozzi as Scimmione

Franco Balducci as il tedesco nel pagliaio

Mario Frera as Peppuccio

Curt Lowens as ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea

Luciana Cortellesi as

Tony Calio as

Remo Galavotti as

Elsa Mancini as

Giuseppina Ruggeri as

Luigi Terribile as

Antonio Gastaldi as

Carolina Carbonaro as

Alberto Castaldi as Lawyer (uncredited)

Vincenzo Musolino as Il piccolo Alessandro (uncredited)

Ettore Mattia as Il passeggero sul treno (uncredited)

Renato Salvatori as Florindo (uncredited)