Pauline de Théus

Juliette Binoche

Angelo Pardi

Olivier Martinez

The Tutor

Isabelle Carré

Monsieur Peyrolle

Pierre Arditi

The Doctor

François Cluzet

Le commissaire de police de Manosque

Gérard Depardieu

Le Colporteur

Jean Yanne

Maggionari

Claudio Amendola

Carla

Laura Marioni

Madame Peyrolle

Christiane Cohendy

Carla

Laura Marinoni

Adrien Peyrolle

Tony Lemiere

Franz

Richard Sammel

Giacomo

Paul Chevillard

The farmer's wife

Élisabeth Margoni

Giuseppe

Carlo Cecchi

Old Harvester

Georges Neri

Man in the apron

Robert Lucibello

Sick Servant

Virginie Matheron

The old man

Jacques Sereys

Laurent de Théus

Paul Freeman

Mme Rigoard

Yolande Moreau

Madame Marquerite

Frederique Ruchaud

Martial

Christophe Le Masne

Guiseppe

Carlos Cecchi

Maître Rigoard

Daniel Russo

Austrian Agent

Patrick Medioni

Une villageoise

Françoise Hubert

Austrian Agent

Philippe Guegan

Alexandre Petit

Jean-Marie Winling

Brigadier Maugin

Hervé Pierre

Austrian Agent

Jean-Francois Pages

The Farmer's Wife

Elizabeth Margoni

Marie Albe

Edmond as a child

Antonin Lebas-Joly

Harvester

Carlos Moreno

Harvester

Jean-Claude Dumas

Harvester

Jean-Paul Journot

Madame Barthelemy

Nathalie Krebs

The Inn Owner

Gerard Lacombe

Monsieur Barthelemy

Christophe Odent

The Cholera Sufferer

Didier Bourguignon

Fugitive

Michel Bellier

Camille, the Little Girl

Azur Guillier

Militiaman

Rene-Andre Fernandez

Stéphane Boucher

Militiaman

Jacques Pater

Grandmother

Yvonne Gamy

Religious Woman

Joëlle Sevilla

Michèle Addala

The Sick Lady

Viviane Cayol

Madame Terrasson

Claire Massabo

The Lady at the Window

Celita Villar

Peasant in the trap

Alain Bauguil

The Bourgeois

Bruno Cecillon

Owner of the forge

Gérard Bayle

The Harpy

Jocelyne Carmichael

Lucienne

Françoise Blanc

Denise Boulet

Blacksmith

Desire Saorin

Blacksmith

Gerard Dubouche

Denise

Brigitte Canaan

The Hysterical Man

Alexis Nitzer

The Excited Man

Lionel Robert

Fugitive

Dany Castaing

Police Station Employee

Serge Pauthe

Man With the Sabre

Michel Carliez

The Sergeant

Michel Cordes

Soldier

Eric Debrosse

Isabelle Dangerfield

Norbert Daverio

Young Man on the Farm

Pascal Rozand

Madame Barthelemy

Nathalie Krebbs

Jean-Michel Fête

Doctor Arnoux

Jacob Reymond

Florence Hautier

Religious Woman

Joelle Cattino

Michel Hulot

Fugitive

Fany Watier

Fugitive

Norbert Sammut

Fugitive

Henriette Palazzi

Dominique Noé

Christine Paolini

Anne-Marie Ponsot

Yves Pujol

Julien Rivière

Roselyne Vuillaume

Alain Zaepffel

Epilogue narrator

Jacques Weber

(uncredited)

Laurence Cormerais