Jean Renoir as Self (archive footage)

Peter Bogdanovich as Self

Bernardo Bertolucci as Self

Auguste Renoir as Self (archive footage)

Jacques Renoir as Self

Norman Lloyd as Self

Alain Renoir as Self

Claude Heymann as Self

Claude Chabrol as Self

Maurice Baquet as Self

Marc Maurette as Self

Henri Cartier-Bresson as Self (voice)

Bertrand Tavernier as Self

Paulette Dubost as Self

Louis Malle as Self

Marcel Dalio as Self (archive footage)

Harriet Walter as Narrator (voice)