"In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family."
Jeanne Moreau
as Berthe
Michel Auclair
as Hector
Marie-France Pisier
as Régina
Claude Mann
as Prosper Pedret
Orane Demazis
as Augustine Pedret
Aram Stephan
as Le vieux Pédret
Hélène Surgère
as Lucie Pedret
Julien Guiomar
as Victor
Michèle Moretti
as Pierrette
Pierre Baillot
as Pierre
Marc Chapiteau
as Pédret jeune
Françoise Lebrun
as Augustine jeune
Jean Rougeul
as Valnoble
Alan Scott
as Richard
Zilouca
as La mère de Pédret jeune
Caroline Cartier
as Gisou
Frédérique Bredin
as Sylvie, fille de Pierre et de Pierrette
Pierre Gautard
as American Officer
André Téchiné
Director
Screenplay
Bruno Nuytten
Director of Photography
Marilyn Goldin
Philippe Sarde
Music
Anne-Marie Deshayes
Editor
Philippe Galland
Production Design