Alain Delon

as Judge Pierre Larcher

Simone Signoret

as Rose Cateux

Bernard Le Coq

as Paul Cateux

Miou-Miou

as Monique Cateux

Paul Crauchet

as Pierre Cateux

Catherine Allégret

as Françoise Cateux

Christian Barbier

as Captain of gendarmerie

Jean Bouise

as Journalist

Pierre Rousseau

as Louis Cateux

Fernand Ledoux

as Dean of Judges

Renato Salvatori

as Hotelier

Armand Abplanalp

as Police officer

Gérard Chevalier

as Émile

Béatrice Costantini

as Lucile Cateux

Michel Berard

as

Salvino Di Pietra

as

Dany Jacquet

as Claudine Perrier, the dead girl

Martin Trévières

as Raoul Renevier

Pascal Faivre

as Pascal Cateux

Florence Moncorgé-Gabin

as Larcher's Wife (uncredited)

Anna Gaylor

as Schoolmistress (uncredited)