"After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman."
Vittorio Gassman
as Augusto Scribani
Dominique Sanda
as Carla
Eva Grimaldi
as Ines
Firmine Richard
as Anita
Veronica Dei
as Deborah
Monica Scattini
as Margherita
Maurizio Fardo
as Giorgio
Valentina Holtkamp
as Rosa
Elliott Gould
as Alcide
Albano Bufalini
as Train passenger
Dijana Becipovic
as
Roberto Ceccacci
Gino Clemente
Gianni Franco
Donald Hodson
as Diogene (as Donald Falaise Hodson)
Maria Teresa Piaggio
as Camonti
Giuseppe Toska
Emy Valentino
Jon Fabian
as (voice) (uncredited)
Luciano Foti
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Pio Angeletti
Producer
Adriano De Micheli
Dino Risi
Director
Enrico Oldoini
Screenplay
Bernardino Zapponi
Blasco Giurato
Director of Photography
Alberto Gallitti
Editor
Story
Francis Lai
Original Music Composer
Gualtiero Caprara
Production Design
Silvio Laurenzi
Costume Design
Miro Viglianesi
First Assistant Director
Rossella Angeletti
Production Manager
Mario D'Alessio
Line Producer
Massimo Guizzi
Federico Boldrini Parravicini
Unit Manager
Luca Casaroli
Production Secretary
Giulio Natalucci
Makeup Artist
Fausto De Lisio
Hairstylist
Stella D'Onofrio
Script Supervisor
Claudio Morabito
Camera Operator
Lidia Pascolini
Assistant Editor
Raffaella Zita
Fabio Lanciotti
Assistant Camera
Umberto Fantina
Assistant Production Design
Philippe Sénéchal
Sound
Philippe Morel
Boom Operator
Gianni Schiavoni
Colorist
Romano Pampaloni
Sound Mixer