Richard Berry

Pierre Zakar

Claudia Cardinale

Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

Omar Sharif

Hagop Zakarian

Jacques Villeret

Alexandre Pagès

Zabou Breitman

Astrid Setian

Nathalie Roussel

Gayane

Diane Bellego

Carole

Jacky Nercessian

Apkar

Isabelle Sadoyan

Anna

Sylvie Joly

Georgette Sylva

Cédric Doucet

Azad age 7

Tom Ponsin

Azad age 12

Stéphane Servais

Azad age 20

Danièle Lebrun

Alexandre's mother

Ginette Garcin

Madame Crespel

Ève Ruggieri

Self

Maurice Chevit

Nazareth

Jean-Pierre Delage

Doctor Philibert

Henry Djanik

Actor in the play

André Julien

Druggist Anzani

Philippe Dehesdin

Raoul Curet

Jean-Gabriel Nordmann

Pierre-Olivier Faïs

Nicolas Vacaro

Tigrane

Christophe Combettes

Alexis Tomassian

Adrien, Pierre Zakar's son

Jennifer Bostroem

Jacques Ciron

Bernard Spiegel

Pierre Belot

Marie Verdi

Bernard Bireaud

Gérard Dessalles

Salah Teskouk

Stéphane Slima

Actor in the play

Nicole Gueden

Pascale Quelfennec

Étienne Bartholomeus

Jean-Michel Molé

Véronique Kapoyan

Brigitte Barry

Dorothée Picard

Bernard Musson

Butler

Henri Verneuil

Priest in an Armenian church (uncredited)