Michel Aumont

Mouton

Catherine Samie

Suzanne

Mimi Young

Francine

Bulle Ogier

Rita

Tilda Thamar

Gerda

Valérie Wilson

Marie-Ange Bystrzanowiez

Raymond Gérôme

Roland Dubillard

Basset

Éric Burnelli

Arnaud, Basset's son

Jean Mermet

Paul, man at the bar

Pascale Arcia

Transsexual with Gerda

Pia Colombo

Olga, poetess

Danielle Durou

Faline

Robert, called Nicole

Noëlle Leiris

Prostitute who tells her life story

Albert Simono

Narrator (voice)

Claudine Beccarie

(uncredited)

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Transvestite from the Grande Eugène (uncredited)