Giancarlo Giannini as Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze

Fernando Rey as Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner

Shirley Stoler as Commandant

Elena Fiore as Concettina, a Sister

Roberto Herlitzka as the socialist

Piero Di Iorio as Francesco - Pasqualino's comrade

Enzo Vitale as Don Raffaele

Ermalinda De Felice as Pasqualino's mother

Lucio Amelio as the lawyer

Aldo Valletti as Madman (uncredited)

Francesca Marciano as Carolina

Mario Conti as Totonno

Barbara Valmorin as The Prison Camp Commandant's Secretary

Salvatore Emilio as

Aristide Caporale as Madman

Pasquale Vitiello as

Luciano Foti as Kapo (uncredited)

Veriano Ginesi as Smoking Patient in Aversa (uncredited)

Carla Mancini as Worker (uncredited)

Ada Pometti as Prostitute (uncredited)

Massimo Vanni as Man in Prison (uncredited)

Giuseppe Transocchi as Hanged Captive (uncredited)