Pierre Mondy as Napoléon Bonaparte

Martine Carol as Joséphine de Beauharnais

Claudia Cardinale as Pauline Bonaparte

Leslie Caron as Mlle de Vaudey

Vittorio De Sica as le pape Pie VII

Elvira Popescu as Lætitia Bonaparte

Jean Marais as Carnot

Michel Simon as Alboise

Orson Welles as Robert Fulton

Georges Marchal as Le maréchal Jean Lannes

Jack Palance as Gen. Weirother

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Ségur fils

Rossano Brazzi as Lucien Bonaparte

Jean Mercure as Talleyrand

Anna Maria Ferrero as Elisa Bonaparte

Ettore Manni as Lucien Bonaparte

Anna Moffo as La Grassini

Daniela Rocca as Caroline Bonaparte

Janez Vrhovec as François II d'Autriche

Roland Bartrop as Nelson

Jean-Marc Bory as Soult

Raoul Billerey as Savary

Guy Haurey as Friant

Jean-François Rémi as Duroc

Anthony Stuart as William Pitt

Polikarp Pavlov as Gen. Koutouzoff

Lucien Raimbourg as Fouche

Henri Vidon as Fox

Nelly Kaplan as Madame Récamier