Pierre Blanchar as Pierre-Joseph Lesurques

Dita Parlo as Mina Lesurques - The Wife of the Accused

Jacques Copeau as The prosecutor - Judge Daubenton

Charles Dullin as Blind witness

Sylvia Bataille as Madeleine Brebant

Hélène Robert as Eugénie Dargence

Monique Joyce as Claudine Faugier-Odot

Pierre Alcover as Valentin Durochat

Jean Tissier as Courriol

Jean-Pierre Kérien as Jean Bruer

André Noël as Franck Excofon

Jean Périer as The jeweler Eugène Legrand

Louis Florencie as Jean Delafolie

Marcel Duhamel as Guénot

Palmyre Levasseur as The woman Grossetête

Gilberte Géniat as The daughter Sauton

Lily Laub as Madame Tallien

Jacqueline Jessus as Margot Lesurques

Jacques Varennes as President Gohier

Andrex as The lawyer of Lesurques

Philippe Rolla as The public prosecutor

Dorville as Pierre Choppart

Michel François as Pierre Lesurques

Bernard Lorrain as Notary's Son (uncredited)