Gérard Depardieu as Gérard Delmas, docker haunted by his sister's suicide

Nastassja Kinski as Loretta Channing, uptown Girl

Victoria Abril as Bella, Gérard's possessive mistress

Bertice Reading as Lola

Gabriel Monnet as Tom

Dominique Pinon as Frank, Gérard's alcoholic brother

Milena Vukotić as Frieda, aging prostitute

Vittorio Mezzogiorno as Newton Channing, Loretta's drifting brother

Anne-Marie Coffinet as Dora

Bernard Farcy as Jésus

Katya Berger as Catherine

Guido Alberti as Guardian of the cathedral

Yves-Marie Maurin as Narrator (voice)

Jacques Herlin as

Rosa Fumetto as

Graziano Giusti as

Fred Ulysse as

Victor Cavallo as

Jean-Roger Milo as

Jean-Pierre Laurent as

Claudia Pola as

Clarisse Deudon as

Julien Arrighi as

Jade Biarese as

Jean-Louis Airola as

Catharina Dahlin as Prostitute (uncredited)

John T. LaBarbera as Dock worker (uncredited)

Frank Nuyen as Man in the sleazy bar (uncredited)