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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