Jean Renoir	...	(Director)
Jean Renoir	...	(Writer)
Nino Formicola	...	Le clochard/The Bum (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Milly	...	La clocharde/Female Bum (segment "Le dernier réveillon") (as Milly Monti)
Roger Trapp	...	Max Vialle (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Robert Lombard	...	Le maître d'hôtel (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
André Dumas	...	Le gérant (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Roland Bertin	...	Gontran (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Paul Bisciglia	...	Un clochard (segment "Le dernier réveillon")
Marguerite Cassan	...	Émilie (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Pierre Olaf	...	Gustave, le mari/The Husband (episode "La cireuse électrique")
Jacques Dynam	...	Jules, le second mari/The Second Husband (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Claude Guillaume	...	Un amoureux/Young Man (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Denis Gunsbourg	...	Un amoureux/Young Man (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Jean-Louis Tristan	...	Le représentant/Agent (segment "La cireuse électrique")
Jeanne Moreau	...	La chanteuse/The Singer (segment "Quand l'amour meurt")
Fernand Sardou	...	Duvallier (segment "Le roi d'Yvetot")
...	...	Le clochard / The Bum (segment "Le dernier réveillon")

Summary: Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.