Vittorio De Sica as Il generale

Daniel Gélin as Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt

Alberto Sordi as Il soldato Vergisson

Paolo Stoppa as Il maresciallo Flick

Jean Richard as Il soldato Laperrine

Silvana Pampanini as Albertina, la camiera del maggiore

Memmo Carotenuto as The Quartermaster Sergeant

Charles Vanel as Il capitano Hurluret

Carlo Lombardi as Il maggiore

Riccardo Fellini as Il soldato Bonaparte

Luigi Pavese as Il capitano medico

Uta Franz as Bice

Peter Trent as Il tenente Mousseret

Giacomo Furia as The Corporal

Gastone Bettanini as

Walter Santesso as Defaulter

Gérard Buhr as Defaulter

Pino Patti as The Bugler

Attilio Martella as The Cook

Carlo Sabatini as

André Hildebrand as

Mário Valente as

Fernando Birri as

Renzo Malatesta as

Oreste Lionello as The Quartermaster's Assistant (uncredited)

Gino Baghetti as (Voice dubbing for Attilo Martella)

Fiorella Betti as (Voice dubbing for Uta Franz)

Giorgio Capecchi as (Voice dubbing for Carlo Lombardo)

Augusto Marcacci as (Voice dubbing)

Giuseppe Rinaldi as (Voice dubbing for Daniel Gélin)

Stefano Sibaldi as (Voice dubbing for Peter Trent)

Vinicio Sofia as (Voice dubbing for Giacomo Furia)

Renato Turi as (Voice dubbing for Riccardo Fellini)