Éric Caravaca
Self - Narrator (voice)

Bertrand Chamerois
Self - Narrator (voice)

Jean-Marie Fonbonne
Self - Narrator (voice)

Laurent Lederer
Self - Narrator (voice)

Anna Flori-Lamour
Self - Narrator (voice)

Céline Payen
Self - Narrator (voice)

Fernand Bignon
Self - Photographer (archive footage)

Jacqueline Bignon
Self - Bignon's Daughter (archive footage)

Maurice Gamelin
Self - Army General (archive footage)

Édouard Daladier
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Walther Lenger
Self - Amateur Filmmaker (archive footage)

Günther Prien
Self - U-boat Commander (archive footage)

Walther von Brauchitsch
Self - Army General (archive footage)

Fernandel
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Albert Lebrun
Self - Politician (archive footage)

King George VI of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain
Self - Politician (archive footage)

William Shepherd Morrison
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Winston Churchill
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Charles de Gaulle
Self - Army Colonel (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hermann Göring
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Paul Valéry
Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)

Jean Giraudoux
Self - Writer (voice) (archive footage)