Jean-Pierre Cassel as Caporal

Claude Brasseur as Papa

Claude Rich as Ballochet

Jacques Jouanneau as Émile, aka 'Penche-à-gauche', waiter

Mario David as 'Caruso', amateur athlete, insurance agent

Jean Carmet as Guillaume aka 'Le Fermier'

Philippe Castelli as 'L'électricien'

Guy Bedos as The stuttering prisoner

O.E. Hasse as Drunk traveler on the train

Cornelia Froboess as Erika Schmidt

Sacha Briquet as Escapee disguised as an old woman

Raymond Jourdan as Hippolyte Dupieu

Gérard Darrieu as Cross-eyed man

Lucien Raimbourg as Station employee

François Darbon as Peasant

Helmut Janatsch as Otto, Commander of the Stalag