Vivi Gioi	Daniela, known as Lilì Marlene
Andrea Checchi	Alberto
Carla Del Poggio	Giovanna
Massimo Girotti	Michele
Vittorio Duse	Giuseppe
Checco Rissone	Mimì
Umberto Sacripante	the lame
Alfredo Salvadori	the beiliff
Folco Lulli	the beiliff
Michele Riccardini	marshal
Eugenia Grandi	sultana
Piero Lulli	the driver
Guido della Valle	the German
Ermanno Randi	Andrea
Massimo Rossini	the chamois
Enrico Tacchetti	the accountant
Carlo Lizzani	a legionary that calls a meeting

In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and pretense according to the “logic of a cinema of direct and immedate political intervention on the national reality”, a well planned and charming story, written by exceptional scriptwriters. De Santis directs his first feature film, with an eye to the documentay and the other to the hollywood cinema, realizing and admirable baroque picture of Italy in course of reconstruction, with its country Po world upset by the war, with its survivors, bandits, black market’s men, “kulaki” and cooperatives “in pages of authentic epic puff using with acumen the populist myths of the earth and of the popular justice”. (P.Mereghetti “Dictionary of the films 1998”, translated by Alice Castoldi)