Ben Gazzara as Don Giovanni Bosco

Patsy Kensit as Lina

Karl Zinny as Giuseppe

Piera Degli Esposti as La madre di Lina

Philippe Leroy as Papa Leone XIII

Leopoldo Trieste as Don Borel

Raymond Pellegrin as Papa Pio IX

Edmund Purdom as Urbano Rattazzi

Rik Battaglia as Marchese Michele Cavour

Aldo E. Castellani as The Little Cobbler

Silvano Tranquilli as

Laurent Terzieff as Monsignor Gastaldi

Pier Luigi Misasi as

Luca Lionello as

Egidio Termine as

Cesare Apolito as

Vittorio Calò as

Cesare Di Vito as

Antonio Francioni as

Rate Furlan as

Jorge Krimer as

Giuseppe Marini as

Armando Marra as

Ovidio Martucci as

Maurizio Mauri as

Giuseppe Mendolicchio as

Pietro Montandon as

Corrado Olmi as

Franco Pistoni as

Robert Sommer as

Leslie Thomas as

Diego Verdegiglio as

Roberto Visconti as