Klaus Maria Brandauer as Danton

François Cluzet as Camille Desmoulins

Marie Bunel as Lucile Desmoulins

Jane Seymour as Marie Antoinette

Jean-François Balmer as Louis XVI

Andrzej Seweryn as Robespierre

Vittorio Mezzogiorno as Marat

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Charlotte Corday

Michel Duchaussoy as Bailly

Marianne Basler as Gabrielle Danton

Peter Ustinov as Vicomte de Mirabeau

Sam Neill as Marquis de Lafayette

Claudia Cardinale as Duchesse de Polignac

Gabrielle Lazure as Princesse de Lamballe

Christopher Lee as Sanson

Jean-Yves Berteloot as Axel de Fersen

Raymond Gérôme as Jacques Necker

Georges Corraface as Hébert

Yves Beneyton as Fouquier-Tinville

Michel Subor as Vadier

Hanns Zischler as Goethe

Michel Galabru as Abbé Maury

Massimo Girotti as Envoyé du Pape

Christopher Thompson as Saint-Just

Serge Dupire as Billaut-Varenne

Jean Bouise as Maurice Duplay

Geneviève Mnich as Mme Duplessis

Henri Serre as Gouverneur de Launay

Dominique Pinon as Drouet

Jean-François Stévenin as Legendre

François-Eric Gendron as Barere

Nadia Vasil as Parisienne affamée

Marion Grimault as Louison Chabry

Ronald Guttman as Herman

Marc de Jonge as Antoine-Joseph Santerre