| Jean Gabin | ... | Albert Quentin | |
| Jean-Paul Belmondo | ... | Gabriel Fouquet | |
| Suzanne Flon | ... | Suzanne Quentin | |
| Gabrielle Dorziat | ... | Victoria | |
| Hella Petri | ... | Georgina | |
| Marcelle Arnold | ... | L'infirmière de la pension / Nurse | |
| Charles Bouillaud | ... | Le chauffeur de taxi | |
| Anne-Marie Coffinet | ... | Simone | |
| André Dalibert | ... | Maurice, le brigadier | |
| Hélène Dieudonné | ... | Joséphine | |
| Geneviève Fontanel | ... | Marie-Jo (as Geneviève Fontanel de la Comédie Française) | |
| Gabriel Gobin | ... | Un habitué du café | |
| Sylviane Margollé | ... | Marie | |
| Lucien Raimbourg | ... | Gardiner | |
| Hans Verner | ... | Le touriste allemand | |
| Paul Frankeur | ... | Esnault | |
| Noël Roquevert | ... | Landru | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Édouard Francomme | ... | Un habitué du café (uncredited) | |
| René Hell | ... | Un habitué du café (uncredited) | |
| Billy Kearns | ... | Un automobiliste (uncredited) | |
| Paul Mercey | ... | Le marchand de poissons (uncredited) | |
| Henri Verneuil | ... | Un officier allemand (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Henri Verneuil | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Michel Audiard | dialogue | |
| Antoine Blondin | novel | |
| François Boyer | ||
Produced by | |||
| Jacques Bar | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Michel Magne | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Louis Page | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Françoise Bonnot | |||
| Monique Bonnot | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Robert Clavel | |||
Production Management | |||
| Léon Sanz | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Costa-Gavras | .... | assistant director | |
| Claude Pinoteau | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Jean Rieul | .... | sound | |
Other crew | |||
| Lucile Costa | .... | script girl | |
| Full cast and crew | Company credits | IMDb Comedy section |
| IMDb France section |
I have read a recent interview with Belmondo, saying that the veteran Jean Gabin hate all that new wave french cinema when he was asked to do this movie with young Belmondo, who was, at that time, an actor who was working with the New Wave directors (Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut). But a solid friendship was born when the two men work together on that movie. In fact, the respect and this friendship seems to be very easy to see when we look at this charming movie. It's full of a sense of poetry. It's a movie about friendship, dreams, nostalgia, sadness between two men from different generations. It's also a movie about alcool, in a sense that the beatniks of that era refers to. It's also very well written. Gabin and Belmondo gives a very warm performance. You must see this wonderful movie.