Le Premier Homme

Jacques Gamblin

Jacques Cormery

Maya Sansa

Catherine Cormery (1924)

Catherine Sola

Catherine Cormery (1957)

Denis Podalydès

Professor Bernard

Ulla Baugué

Grandma

Nicolas Giraud

Uncle Étienne (1924)

Nino Jouglet

Jacques as a child

Abdelkarim Benhabouccha

Hamoud

Hachemi Abdelmalek

Aziz

Djamel Hadj Saïd

Hamoud as a child

Jean-Paul Bonnaire

Uncle Étienne (1957)

Jean-François Stévenin

Farmer

Michel Crémadès

Graveyard keeper

Mickaël Batret

Student at the wheel (as Michael Batret)

Jean Benoit Souilh

Student

Nicolas Lublin

Journalist