الخبز الحافي

Saïd Taghmaoui

Young Mohamed Choukri

Fayçal Zeghadi

Mohamed Choukri (13 years old)

بيلال لاسيني

Mohamed Choukri (6 years old)

Karim Benhadj

Taferseti

Sanaa Alaoui

Mimouna (Mohamed's mother)

David Halevim

Haddou (Mohamed's father)

Marzia Tedeschi

Sallafa (bald woman)

Ahmed Elkourachi

Kabil (smuggler)

Jamil Hammoudi

Ali

Francesca Codispoti

Harrouda (prostitute)

Giovanna Ria

Bushra (deaf-mute)

Josè Dell'Abbiato

The Spaniard

Armando De Razza

Boualem (cafe owner)

Daniel Ducruet

Prison guard

Hamid Basket

Abdelmalek (the scribe)

Mohamed Rachid Benhadj

Marwani (the revolutionary)