Giorgio Bassani
Poet Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Renato Guttuso
Prose Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Narrator (voice)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
Self (archive footage)
Yuri Gagarin
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Alighiero Noschese
Self (archive footage)
Pope John XXIII
Self (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
Ninetto Davoli
Self (archive footage)
Franco Citti
Self (archive footage)
Laura Betti
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Magrelli
Narrator (voice)
Giovanni Guareschi
Self (archive footage)