| Valentine Tessier | ... | Eglantine | |
| Claude Dauphin | ... | Clément | |
| Odile Versois | ... | Marguerite | |
| Micheline Luccioni | ... | Yolande - une fille d'Eglantine | |
| Jacques François | ... | Edmond | |
| Roger Carel | ... | Ernest | |
| Frédéric | ... | Leopold | |
| Laure Jeanson | ... | Pauline | |
| Sylvia Barrouillet | ... | Gilberte | |
| Darling Légitimus | ... | Lolo | |
| Marco Perrin | ... | Guillaume | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dominique Davray | ... | La marchande de casquettes | |
| Nathalie De Lesparda | ... | Germaine | |
| Henri Déus | ... | Le curé | |
| Yvonne Legeay | ... | La dame au chien | |
| Annie Savarin | ... | Emilienne | |
Directed by | |||
| Jean-Claude Brialy | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Jean-Claude Brialy | ||
| Eric Ollivier | ||
Produced by | |||
| Jacques Charrier | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Christian Chevallier | |||
| Jean-Jacques Debout | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Alain Derobe | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Hélène Arnal | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Jean Marie Simon | |||
Sound Department | |||
| Paul Lainé | .... | boom operator | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Jean Chiabaut | .... | camera operator | |
| Full cast and crew | Company credits | IMDb France section |
Jean-Claude Brialy ,a very talented French actor,when it comes to directing ,has always kept his child's soul.He transferred to the screen two novels written by the comtesse de Segur "les Malheurs de Sophie" and " un Bon Petit Diable" .Those choices were predictable"in the wake of "Eglantine" ,which could have been written by the dear old countess:the old grandma with all her grandsons on her knee in her castle is a thing of a distant past ,but deliciously charming.It's not all finer feelings since the adults are not that much nice.In his memoirs "j'ai oublié de vous dire" ,Brialy is not kind with his own family:hence perhaps the need to build an imaginary one.Only for people who are still having their child's soul.I'm part of them,of course.