Gérard Philipe

as Le comte

as Fanfan la Tulipe

as Young Henri Faust / Young-Looking Mephistopheles

as Amedeo Modigliani

as Valmont

as Lieutenant Armand de la Verne

as Julien Sorel

as Pierre

as François Jaubert

as Ramón Vázquez

as Claude

as D'Artagnan

as Georges

as Octave Mouret, ambitious provincial

as Self

as André Ripois

as le marquis Fabrice Del Dong

as Michel Grandier

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Désiré

as Le Trouvère

as Gérard de Narçay (segment "Une cravate de fourrure")

as Prince Miouchkine

as The playmaker / The painter (segment "Le Huitième Péché")

as Alexei Ivanovitch

as Till l’Espiègle

as Jérôme Hardy

as Carlo (segment "Gli Amanti")

as Self (archive footage)

as Philippe Perrin

as Narrator (voice)

as Simon Legouge / Frédéric Talacayud

as Récitant / Narrator

as Man (uncredited)

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

as Gabriel Pégase

as Self