Claude Dauphin as le docteur

Gaby Morlay as Denise - la femme d'Ambroise

Madeleine Renaud as Julia Tellier

Ginette Leclerc as Madame Flora dite Balançoire

Mila Parély as Madame Raphaële

Danielle Darrieux as Madame Rosa

Pierre Brasseur as Julien Ledentu

Jean Gabin as Joseph Rivet

Jean Servais as l'ami de Jean

Daniel Gélin as Jean

Simone Simon as Joséphine

Philippe de Chérisey as Frédéric

Paul Azaïs as Le patron du bal

Antoine Balpêtré as Monsieur Poulain

René Blancard as Le maire

Henri Crémieux as Monsieur Pimpesse

Gaby Bruyère as Frimousse

Mathilde Casadesus as Madame Louise dite Cocotte

Arthur Devère as Le contrôleur du train

Paulette Dubost as Madame Fernande

Jean Galland as Ambroise

Jocelyne Jany as La petite Constance Rivet

Robert Lombard as Monsieur Philippe

Héléna Manson as Marie Rivet

Marcel Pérès as Monsieur Duvert

Jean Meyer as Monsieur Dupuis

Louis Seigner as Monsieur Tourneveau

Michel Vadet as Le marin

Janine Viénot as La poule du docteur

Charles Vissières as Le vieux normand dans le train

Peter Ustinov as Narrator (uncredited) (voice) (English edit)

Anton Walbrook as Narrator, German version