• 
  Vittorio De Sica

  regizor

• 
  Cesare Zavattini

  scenarist

• 
  Ernest Borgnine

  Pickpocket
• 
  Domenico Modugno

  The singer
• 
  Paul Demange

  Miser in Paris
• 
  Nino Manfredi

  Chelnerul
• 
  Carlo Taranto
• 
  Ciccio Ingrassia

  Unemployed man

• 
  Alberto Sordi

  Merchant of children
• 
  Alfio Vita
• 
  Silvana Mangano

  Signora Matteoni
• 
  Lino Ventura

  Giovanna's father
• 
  Franco Franchi

  Unemployed man
• 
  Eleonora Brown

  Giovanna
• 
  Jack Palance

  Matteoni

• 
  Lamberto Maggiorani

  Poor man
• 
  Maria-Pia Casilio

  Waitress
• 
  Akim Tamiroff

  Play director
• 
  Vittorio De Sica

  Defense lawyer
• 
  Marisa Merlini

  Mother of tomato-throwing child
• 
  Jimmy Durante

  The man with the large nose
• 
  Regina Bianchi
• 
  Paolo Stoppa

  Giorgio
• 
  Giacomo Furia
• 
  Renato Rascel

  Coppola
• 
  Vittorio Gassman

  Cimino
• 
  Melina Mercouri

  Foreign lady
• 
  Anouk Aimée

  Giorgio's wife Irene
• 
  Fernandel

• 
  Dino De Laurentiis

  producător
• 
  Gábor Pogány

  imagine
• 
  Adriana Novelli

  montaj
• 
  Marisa Letti

  montaj
• 
  Alessandro Cicognini

  coloană sonoră