Saïd Taghmaoui
— Young Mohamed Choukri
Fayçal Zeghadi
— Mohamed Choukri (13 years old)
بيلال لاسيني
— Mohamed Choukri (6 years old)
Karim Benhadj
— Taferseti
Sanaa Alaoui
— Mimouna (Mohamed's mother)
David Halevim
— Haddou (Mohamed's father)
Marzia Tedeschi
— Sallafa (bald woman)
Ahmed Elkourachi
— Kabil (smuggler)
Jamil Hammoudi
— Ali
Francesca Codispoti
— Harrouda (prostitute)
Giovanna Ria
— Bushra (deaf-mute)
Josè Dell'Abbiato
— The Spaniard
Armando De Razza
— Boualem (cafe owner)
Daniel Ducruet
— Prison guard
Hamid Basket
— Abdelmalek (the scribe)
Mohamed Rachid Benhadj
— Marwani (the revolutionary)
Simona Manganaro
— Assia (girl in the garden)
Sandra Loredana Cristiano
— Prostitute 2
Ilaria De Laurentiis
— Rhimou (Mohamed's little sister)
Aida Ben Barka
— Student