Casts
Marco Cassini
as Gaetano Tognetti
Gigi Proietti
as cardinal Romeo Colombo da Priverno
Lino Toffolo
as Serafino (cardinal Colombo's servant)
Sandra Ceccarelli
as countess Flaminia Ricci
Domenico Diele
as Cesare Costa
Francesco Venditti
as Giuseppe Monti
Jerzy Stuhr
as Pierre-Jean Beckx (head of the Jesuits)
Arnaldo Ninchi
as Pope Pius IX
Renato Scarpa
as cardinal Belloni
Greta Scarano
as Teresa Ferri