Stefano Accorsi as Maia

Maria de Medeiros as Antónia

Joaquim de Almeida as Gervásio

Frédéric Pierrot as Manuel

Fele Martínez as Lobão

Manuel João Vieira as Fonseca

Marcantonio Del Carlo as Silva

Emmanuel Salinger as Botelho

Rita Durão as Rosa

Duarte Guimarães as Daniel

Manuel Lobão as Fernandes

Manuel Manquiña as Gabriel

Luís Miguel Cintra as Brigadeiro Pais

Joaquim Leitão as Filipe

Canto e Castro as Salieri

Rogério Samora as Rui Gama

Pedro Hestnes as Emílio

Marcello Urgeghe as Radio speaker

José Airosa as Paulo Ruivo

António Capelo as Chamarro

Ruy de Carvalho as Spínola

José Eduardo as Virgílio

Carlos Matos Gomes as Coronel Matos

Pedro Efe as Old Sergeant

Henrique Viana as Brigadeiro Moura

Luís Mascarenhas as Coronel Lopes

João Lagarto as Jornalista Caxias

Sano de Perpessac as Florist

Vasco Pimentel as Crowd Journalist

João Reis as Voice of Salgueiro Maia (voice)

Joaquim Nicolau as Man in Crowd - Caxias

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho as Oscar (uncredited)

Carlos Vieira as Apontador

João Cabral as RCP Journalist

Miguel Melo as Young PIDE Police Officer

Marco Delgado as Barrack Soldier

Jerry Rudes as American

Luís Lima Barreto as 2nd Minister

Guilherme Filipe as Inspector Santos

José Boavida as Radio technician

Pedro Carraca as RCP Journalist

Paula Guedes as Irene

Igor Sampaio as 1.º Polícia RCP

António Victorino de Almeida as Carmo Man

Nelson Monforte as (Uncredited)