Éric Caravaca as Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Chamerois as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jean-Marie Fonbonne as Self - Narrator (voice)

Laurent Lederer as Self - Narrator (voice)

Anna Flori-Lamour as Self - Narrator (voice)

Céline Payen as Self - Narrator (voice)

Fernand Bignon as Self - Photographer (archive footage)

Jacqueline Bignon as Self - Bignon's Daughter (archive footage)

Maurice Gamelin as Self - Army General (archive footage)

Édouard Daladier as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Walther Lenger as Self - Amateur Filmmaker (archive footage)

Günther Prien as Self - U-boat Commander (archive footage)

Walther von Brauchitsch as Self - Army General (archive footage)

Fernandel as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Albert Lebrun as Self - Politician (archive footage)

King George VI of the United Kingdom as Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain as Self - Politician (archive footage)

William Shepherd Morrison as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Winston Churchill as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle as Self - Army Colonel (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hermann Göring as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Paul Valéry as Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)

Jean Giraudoux as Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)