Lucia Bosè as Marisa Benvenuti

Cosetta Greco as Elena

Liliana Bonfatti as Lucia

Ave Ninchi as Madre di Marisa

Renato Salvatori as Augusto Terenzi

Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Sartori

Eduardo De Filippo as Vittorio

Leda Gloria as Rosa, Elena's mother

Mario Silvani as Alberto

Anna Maria Bugliari as Leda

Fernando Milani as Amedeo

Luciana Vedovelli as

Giorgio Bassani as Narrator - 'professore'

Galeazzo Benti as Marisa's friend

Tony Angeli as

Mario Guarnacci as Alberto

Lita Perez as