Vincent Lowy

Self - historian

Anne Sinclair

Self - journalist

Samuel Blumenfeld

Self - historian

Sylvie Lindeperg

Self - historian

Marcel Ophüls

Self (archive) - director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

Pascal Breton

Self - producer

André Harris

Self - co-author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

André Gazut

Self - director of photography

Pascal Ory

Self - historian

Henry Rousso

Self - historian

Laurent Joly

Self - historian

Claude Vajda

Self (voice) (archive) - assistant and editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

Claus Leggewie

Self - political scientist

Simone Veil

Self (voice) (archive) - magistrate

Antoine Spire

Self - journalist

Vincent Malle

Self - distributor

Hélène Mouchard-Zay

Self - Jean Zay's daughter

Henri Leclerc

Self - lawyer

Annette Lévy-Willard

Self - journalist

Antoine Silber

Self - journalist

François Heilbronn

Self - professor

Charles-Henri Favrod

Self (voice) (archive) - producer ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

Denis Rake

Self (archive) - secret agent, interviewee ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

Georges Pompidou

Self (archive) - President of the French Republic

Michel Ciment

Self (voice) (archive) - film critic

Catherine Ellsberg

Self - professor

Robert O. Paxton

Self (archive) - historian

Pierre-André Teitgen

Self (archive) - member of Resistance