"A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building."
Shelley Winters
as Lea
Max von Sydow
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Renato Pozzetto
as Stella Kraus / Carabiniere
Alberto Lionello
as Berta Maner / Banker
Laura Antonelli
as Sandra
Mario Scaccia
as Rosario
Franco Branciaroli
as Priest Don Onorio
Milena Vukotić
as Tina
Rita Tushingham
as Maria
Adriana Asti
as Palma
Antonio Marsina
as Michele
Liù Bosisio
as Crippled Neighbor
Maria Monti
as Second Neighbor
Giancarlo Badessi
as Lisa's Friend
Marco Modugno
as Student
Alberto Squillante
as Carabiniere
Franco Balducci
as
Gérard Caillaud
as Man in Police Station (uncredited)
Catharina Dahlin
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
Giovanni Morosi
as Man in Church (uncredited)
Mauro Bolognini
Director
Danilo Donati
Production Design
Marco Cristiani
Assistant Camera
Nefte Riccò
Seamstress
Elvira Tonini
Assistant Editor
Filippo Campus
Production Secretary
Armando Nannuzzi
Director of Photography
Ennio Cascioli
Hairstylist
Enzo Jannacci
Original Music Composer
Alfredo Tiberi
Makeup Artist
Rosalba Di Bartolo Tonti
Costume Design
Renato Francola
Assistant Makeup Artist
Alfredo Senzacqua
Camera Operator
Nicola Badalucco
Story
Massimo Alberini
Production Manager
Gianni Zampagni
Boom Operator
Nino Cristiani
Giulio Diamanti
Key Grip
Giancarlo Marin
Luciano Vincenzoni
Nicola Bucci
Property Master
Adriana Mattiozzi
Danilo Martelli
Administration
Anna Katarina Schapringer
Script Supervisor
Daniele Nannuzzi
Adelchi Marinangeli
Adriano Pischiutta
Special Effects
Mario Mazzoni
Still Photographer
Antonio Gabrielli
First Assistant Director
Agnese Panarotto
Hair Department Head
Nino Baragli
Editor
Alfredo Di Santo
Unit Manager
Giovanni Natalucci
Piero Fondi
Sound
Marcello Gabriele
Gaffer
Fernando Franchi
Line Producer
Gloria Mussetta
Assistant Costume Designer
Gaspare Carboni
Makeup Department Head
Screenplay
Sandra Riccardi Infascelli
Producer