| VVincent LowySelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
 Anne SinclairSelf - Journalist | Self - Journalist |
 Samuel BlumenfeldSelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
 Sylvie LindepergSelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
 Marcel OphülsSelf (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") |
| PPascal BretonSelf - Producer | Self - Producer |
| AAndré HarrisSelf - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Self - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") |
 André GazutSelf - Director of Photography | Self - Director of Photography |
 Pascal OrySelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
| HHenry RoussoSelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
 Laurent JolySelf - Historian | Self - Historian |
| CClaude VajdaSelf (voice) (archive sound) - Assistant and Editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Self (voice) (archive sound) - Assistant and Editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") |
| CClaus LeggewieSelf - Political Scientist | Self - Political Scientist |
 Simone VeilSelf (voice) (archive sound) - Magistrate | Self (voice) (archive sound) - Magistrate |
| AAntoine SpireSelf - Journalist | Self - Journalist |
| VVincent MalleSelf - Distributor | Self - Distributor |
| HHélène Mouchard-ZaySelf - Jean Zay's Daughter | Self - Jean Zay's Daughter |
| HHenri LeclercSelf - Lawyer | Self - Lawyer |
| AAnnette Lévy-WillardSelf - Journalist | Self - Journalist |
| AAntoine SilberSelf - Journalist | Self - Journalist |
| FFrançois HeilbronnSelf - Professor | Self - Professor |
| CCharles-Henri FavrodSelf (voice) (archive sound) - Producer ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Self (voice) (archive sound) - Producer ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") |
| DDenis RakeSelf (archive footage) - Secret Agent, Interviewee ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Self (archive footage) - Secret Agent, Interviewee ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") |
 Georges PompidouSelf (archive footage) - President of the French Republic | Self (archive footage) - President of the French Republic |
 Michel CimentSelf (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic | Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic |
| CCatherine EllsbergSelf - Professor | Self - Professor |
| RRobert O. PaxtonSelf (archive footage) - Historian | Self (archive footage) - Historian |
| PPierre-André TeitgenSelf (archive footage) - Member of Resistance | Self (archive footage) - Member of Resistance |
