"Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him)."
Alain Delon
as Ulisse Cecconato
Barbara Lass
as Franca Fossati
Gino Cervi
as Olinto Fossati
Rina Morelli
as Rosa Fossati
Ugo Tognazzi
as Anarchist
Paolo Stoppa
as Hairdresser
Gastone Moschin
as le curé
Fanfulla
as Prison Chaplain
Marta Timar
as (uncredited)
Giuliana Farnese
as Anarchist (uncredited)
Rosalba Neri
as Mother with two boys (as Rosalba Neri c.s.c.) (credit only)
Monica Neri
as Mother with two boys (uncredited)
René Clément
Director
Screenplay
Leonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Gualtiero Jacopetti
Idea
Pierre Bost
Dialogue
Henri Decaë
Director of Photography
Franco Villa
Camera Operator
Sante Achilli
Assistant Camera
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Original Music Composer
Piero Zuffi
Production Design
Riccardo Domenici
Interior Designer
Pier Luigi Pizzi
Costume Designer
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Assistant Director