Lino Ventura as General Carlo Dalla Chiesa

Giuliana De Sio as Emanuela Setti Carraro

Arnoldo Foà as Minister Virginio Rognoni

Lino Troisi as Pio La Torre

Stefano Satta Flores as Captain Fontana

Adalberto Maria Merli as Mafioso #1

Accursio Di Leo as Lo Verde

Anita Zagaria as Rita Dalla Chiesa

Aldo Sarullo as Reporter

Mariella Lo Sardo as Vincenzina

Giuseppe Lo Presti as Gaetano Costa

Luigi Nicolosi as Rosario Di Salvo

Rosario Coniglione as Wiretaps Detector

Andrea Aureli as Mafioso #2

Guido Sagliocca as Ballistic Specialist

Regis Emglamder as

Mario Chiocchio as Mafioso #3

Mimmo Cuticchio as Worker (uncredited)

Giuseppe di Bella as The Mute (uncredited)

Geoffrey Copleston as Bank Executive (uncredited)

Terenzio Cordova as Banker (uncredited)

Pier Giovanni Anchisi as Journalist (uncredited)

Lauro Versari as (uncredited)

Luciano Zanussi as Journalist (uncredited)

Vittorio Ripamonti as Politican (uncredited)

Lamberto Solfa as Politican (uncredited)

Osvaldo Peccioli as Politician (uncredited)

Salvatore Francofonte as Politician (uncredited)

Francesco Scimeni as Student (uncredited)

Federico Neri as Anchorman (voice) (uncredited)