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)

John XXIII.

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Ninetto Davoli

Self (archive footage)

Franco Citti

Self (archive footage)

Laura Betti

Self (archive footage)