Cast
- Jean Gabin as Lieutenant Maréchal, a French officer, of modest social background
- Marcel Dalio as Lieutenant Rosenthal, a French officer, of nouveau riche Jewish ancestry
- Pierre Fresnay as Captain de Boeldieu, a French regular officer and aristocrat
- Erich von Stroheim as Captain (later Major) von Rauffenstein, a German regular officer and aristocrat
- Dita Parlo as Elsa, a widowed German farm woman
- Julien Carette as Cartier, the vaudeville performer
- Gaston Modot as an engineer
- Georges Péclet as an officer
- Werner Florian as Sgt. Arthur
- Jean Dasté as a teacher
- Sylvain Itkine as Lieutenant Demolder
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Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.”
—Bible: Hebrew (KJ)
“But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor,
Unburied, cast on the wide earth,
Limbs that we left in the house of Circe,
Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”