As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.

• Titanus
• Société Générale de Cinématographie (S.G.C.)
• Burt Lancaster
• Claudia Cardinale
• Alain Delon
• Paolo Stoppa
• Rina Morelli
• Romolo Valli
• Terence Hill
• Pierre Clémenti