Luigi Lo Cascio as Domenico Lopresti

Valerio Binasco as Angelo Cammarota

Francesca Inaudi as Cristina di Belgiojoso

Andrea Bosca as Angelo Cammarota (giovane)

Edoardo Natoli as Domenico Lopresti (giovane)

Luigi Pisani as Salvatore Tambasco

Guido Caprino as Felice Orsini

Renato Carpentieri as Carlo Poerio

Michele Riondino as Saverio Tambasco

Peppino Mazzotta as Don Carmine Lopresti

Franco Ravera as Antonio Gomez

Stefano Cassetti as Carlo Rudio

Andrea Renzi as Sigismondo di Castromediano

Ivan Franěk as Simon Bernard

Roberto De Francesco as Ludovico

Toni Servillo as Giuseppe Mazzini

Luca Barbareschi as Antonio Gallenga

Fiona Shaw as Emilie Ashurst

Luca Zingaretti as Francesco Crispi

Anna Bonaiuto as Cristina di Belgiojoso (anziana)

Alfonso Santagata as Saverio 'O' trappetaro' Tabasco

Fulvia Carotenuto as Domenico's mother

Pino Calabrese as Marshall Del Carretto

Beppe Rosso as Customs officer

Ivan Alovisio as Young Antonio Gallenga ('Procida')

Paolo Mazzarelli as Committee member

Roberto Accornero as Luigi Melegari

Emiliano Masala as Soldier

Bruno Cariello as Don Carlo

Renato Marotta as Arduino

Enzo Salomone as Marquis Pica

Edoardo Winspeare as Nicola Nisco

Antonio Pennarella as Prison warden

Giovanni Capalbo as Chief of guards

Francesco Di Leva as Prison guard

Carlo Guitto as Prison guard

Giovanni Ludeno as Gaetano Errichello

Antonello Cossia as Giovanni Caruso

Totò Onnis as Francesco Romano

Salvatore Cantalupo as Pasquale Vuoso

Luigi Biondi as Cesare Braico

Vito Facciolla as Zaccaria Gallo

Giancarlo Muselli as Luigi Sticco

Marco Mario De Notaris as Michele Pironti

Michelangelo Dalisi as Felice Barone

Claudio Spadaro as Bourbon agent

Nuccio Siano as Prisoner

Lola Peploe as Orsini's lover

Romuald Kłos as Stanisław Worcell

Vanessa Faye-Stanley as Rudio's wife

Beppe Chierici as Monsieur Hebert, a policeman

Francis Pardeilhan as Monsieur Delange, a judge

Claude Lebas as Priest in jail

Pierre Lucat as Reader of the verdict

Dante de Rose as Innkeeper

Giovanni Calcagno as Actor from the Vicaria

Vincenzo Pirrotta as Actor from the Vicaria

Salvatore Ragusa as Actor from the Vicaria

Gino De Luca as Garibaldino

Paolo Civati as Garibaldino

Rocco Capraro as Garibaldino

Massimo Zordan as Garibaldino

Filippo Plancher as Garibaldino officer

Jurij Ferrini as Piedmontese commander

Pietro Manigrasso as Prisoner (uncredited)

Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia as Aristocratico