Cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Serge Alexandre (Stavisky)
- François Périer as Albert Borelli, Alexandre's dourly efficient and ever-present lawyer
- Anny Duperey as Arlette, Alexandre's glamorous wife
- Michel Lonsdale as Dr Mézy, Alexandre's physician and friend
- Claude Rich as inspecteur Bonny, the relentless and not wholly disinterested investigator of Alexandre's frauds
- Charles Boyer as baron Raoul, a genial right-wing aristocrat who becomes Alexandre's loyal friend
Gérard Depardieu appears in a small role, the first of his several performance for Resnais, as a young inventor of the Matriscope, a device for determining the sex of a child in the womb, to which Alexandre impulsively gives his financial backing.
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