"A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant."
Farley Granger
as Il Tenente Franz Mahler
Alida Valli
as La Contessa Livia Serpieri
Massimo Girotti
as Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni
Heinz Moog
as Il Conte Serpieri
Rina Morelli
as Laura, la Governante
Christian Marquand
as Un Ufficiale Boemo
Sergio Fantoni
as Luca
Tino Bianchi
as Il Capitano Meucci
Ernst Nadherny
as Il Comandante della Piazza di Verona
Tonio Selwart
as Il Colonello Kleist
Marcella Mariani
as Clara, la Prostituta
Franco Arcalli
as Un Soldato (uncredited)
Aldo Bajocchi
Ottone Candiani
Nando Cicero
Claudio Coppetti
Cristoforo De Hartungen
as Il Generale Hauptmann (uncredited)
Tony Di Mitri
Eugenio Incisivo
Marianne Leibl
as La Moglie del Generale Hauptmann (uncredited)
Ugo Mari
as Officer in Verona's Austrian Headquartes (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Spartaco Nale
Ivy Nicholson
as Una Patriota (uncredited)
Mimmo Palmara
Winni Riva
as La Cameriera (uncredited)
Carlo Sabatini
Goliarda Sapienza
as Una Patriota al Teatro (uncredited)
Renato Terra
Gustl Untersulzner
Mário Valente
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Story
Luchino Visconti
Screenplay
Director
Second Assistant Director
Vittorio Trentino
Sound
Camillo Boito
Novel
Aldo Calpini
Nino Cristiani
Assistant Camera
Franco Ferrara
Conductor
Gina Guglielmotti
Production Assistant
Roberto Palaggi
Production Secretary
Mary Alcaide
Script Supervisor
Anton Bruckner
Original Music Composer
Claudio Forges Davanzati
Production Manager
Aldo Trionfo
Giorgio Bassani
Co-Writer
Giorgio Prosperi
Paul Bowles
Dialogue
Giancarlo Zagni
Carlo Alianello
Tennessee Williams
Giuseppe Rotunno
Camera Operator
Piero Tosi
Costume Design
Ottavio Scotti
Production Design
Marcel Escoffier
Gino Brosio
Set Decoration
G.R. Aldo
Director of Photography
Mario Serandrei
Editor
Robert Krasker
Gabriele Silvestri
Production Supervisor
Francesco Rosi
Assistant Director
Marcello Giannini
Franco Zeffirelli
Francesco Izzarelli
Alberto De Rossi
Makeup Artist
Riccardo Gualino
Producer
Renato Gualino
Domenico Forges Davanzati