"According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear."
Michel Serrault
as Paul Léautaud
Annie Girardot
as Le Fléau
Aurore Clément
as Marie D.
Patrick Bauchau
as Vollard
Roger Carel
as Le docteur
Christine Delaroche
as La secrétaire
Jean-Paul Roussillon
as Henri
Antoine Duléry
as L'écrivain
Nathalie Serrault
as Une doucelle
Tatiana Vialle
Max Vialle
as L'Abbé Meunier
Francis Selleck
as
Fernanda Lapa
as (uncredited)
Luís Pavão
Lídia Franco
Luísa Barbosa
Francis Dreyfus
Producer
Paul Léautaud
Novel
Jean-Bernard Fetoux
Jean-François Davy
Karl Lagerfeld
Costume Design
Alex Polonceau
Jean-Pierre Rawson
Director
Karl-Heinz Schäfer
Original Music Composer
Victor Béniard
Executive Producer
Robert Kuperberg
Hélène Doering
Screenplay
Dominique Chapuis
Director of Photography
António da Cunha Telles