Jean Cocteau (Himself, the Poet)
Yul Brynner (The Court Usher)
Edouard Dermit (Cegeste)
Henri Cremieux (The Professor)
Maria Casarés (The Princess)
Luis Miguel Dominguin
François Perier (Heurtebise)
Charles Aznavour (Himself)
Jean-Claude Petit (2nd Man-Dog)
Roger Vadim
Marie-Josephe Yoyotte (Gypsy)
Henry Torres (The Master of Ceremonies)
Annette Vadim
Alice Sapritch
Claudine Auger (Minerva)
Brigitte Bardot (Herself)
Lucia Bosé
Françoise Christophe (The Nurse)
Nicole Courcel (The Young Mother)
Daniel Gélin (The Intern)
Michael Goodliffe (English Narrator)
Jean Marais (Oedipus)
Pablo Picasso (Himself)
Francoise Sagan (Herself)
Françoise Arnoul
Jean-Pierre Léaud (The Schoolboy)