Vittorio Gassman as Walter Guarini

Ruggero Raimondi as Count Michel Forbek

Fanny Ardant as Livia Cerasquier

Geraldine Chaplin as Nora Winkle

Sabine Azéma as Élisabeth Rousseau

Pierre Arditi as Robert Dufresne

Robert Manuel as Georges Leroux

Martine Kelly as Claudine Obertin

Samson Fainsilber as Zoltán Forbek

Véronique Silver as Nathalie Holberg

André Dussollier as Raoul Vandamme

Guillaume Boisseau as Frédéric

Sabine Thomas as Marie

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu as Teacher

Rodolphe Schacher as Pierre

Jean-Claude Arnaud as Driver of the van

Lucienne Hamon as Juliette Watelet

Jean-Louis Richard as Father Jean Watelet

Hélène Patarot as Thi Lan

Flavie Ducorps as Nora Winkle's daughter

Jean-Claude Corbel as The legendary hero

Jean-Michel Dupuis as Laplaud, kindergarten teacher

Michel Muller as Bertin

Philippe Laudenbach as Educator enemy of gratuitous daydreaming

Cathy Berberian as Nanny

Marc Adjadj as

Nelly Alard as

Tony Ammirati as

Sébastien Angebault as

Jérôme Anger as

Michel Batilliet as

Francine Bergé as Young girl fan of happiness

Jean-Noël Bert as

Tomasz Białkowski as

Patricia Bilal as

Charlotte Bonnet as

Bérangère Bonvoisin as

Valérie Bousquet as

Michel Brinquier as

Linda Bruno as

Robert Cantarella as

Catherine Cauwet as

Elisabeth Chailloux as

Pierre Charras as

Raphaëline Chauvière as

Eve Cotton as

Jean Crubelier as

Yann Dedet as

Garrick Dowhen as

Jean-Pierre Dravel as

Valérie Dréville as

Nicolas Dumayet as

Michelle Dumon as

Jean-Marie Duprez as

Thierry Ferrer as

Serge Feuillard as

Eric Franklin as

Pierre Frano as

Marie Gascon as

François-Eric Gendron as

Philippe Besson as