 | Isabelle Huppert als Piera |
 | Hanna Schygulla als Eugenia |
 | Marcello Mastroianni als Lorenzo |
 | Angelo Infanti als Tito / Giasone |
 | Tanya Lopert als Elide |
 | Bettina Grühn als Piera as a Child |
 | Renato Cecchetto als psychiatric hospital attendant |
 | Maurizio Donadoni als Massimo |
 | Aïché Nana als midwife |
 | Girolamo Marzano als doctor Filippi |
| Lidia Montanari als "One hundred thousand lires" |
 | Laura Trotter als Luciana |
| Marina Zanchi als Arianna |
 | Lina Bernardi als Miriam Gautieri |
| Elisabetta Ambrosini |
 | Fiammetta Baralla als hospital nurse |
 | Serena Bennato als Marisa |
 | Rita Caldana |
| Cristina Forti |
| Daniela Nicosia |
| Pino Tosca als baker |
| Vincenzo Aronica |
| María Badmajew |
| Domenico Coppola |
| Monica Assante |
| Salvatore Iacono als psychiatric hospital attendant who cuts Eugenia's hair |
| Silvia Nebbia als Silvia |
| Patrizia Roncati Negri |
| Fausto Schermi |
| Piera Degli Esposti | Screenplay |
| Marco Ferreri | Screenplay |
| Marco Ferreri | Director |
| Dacia Maraini | Screenplay |
| Erwin C. Dietrich | Producer |
| Ennio Guarnieri | Director of Photography |
| Luciano Luna | Executive Producer |
| Achille Manzotti | Producer |
| Ruggero Mastroianni | Editor |
| Dacia Maraini | Story |
| Piera Degli Esposti | Story |
| Marco Ferreri | Story |
| Dacia Maraini | Book |
| Piera Degli Esposti | Book |
| Nicoletta Ercole | Costume Design |
| Giandomenico Stellitano | Production Manager |
| Gérard Gaultier | Production Manager |
| Philippe Sarde | Original Music Composer |
| Georges Prat | Sound |
| Giancarlo Del Brocco | Makeup Artist |
| Alfredo Tiberi | Makeup Artist |
| Anni Nöbauer | Makeup Artist |
| Gilda De Guilmi | Hairstylist |
| Claudio Gaeta | Production Manager |
| Cecilia Catalucci | Assistant Editor |
| Aldo Marchiori | Camera Operator |
| Marco Sperduti | Camera Operator |
| Gianfranco Torinti | Assistant Camera |
| Roberto Schettini | Assistant Camera |
| Giancarlo Capuani | Assistant Production Design |
| Luciana Vedovelli | Production Design |
| Tiziana Mancini | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Maria Rita Barbera | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Giovanni Corridori | Special Effects |
| Tonino Corridori | Special Effects |
| Francesco Frigeri | Production Design |
| Rosanna Landi | Assistant Editor |
