Cast

• Gino Cervi
  Gino Cervi
  Gino Cervi was an Italian actor of international fame.Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi.In 1928, he married Nini Gordini and they had a son, Tonino Cervi...
  
   – Jean Valjean
• Valentina Cortese – Fantina / Cosetta
• Hans Hinrich – Javert (as Giovanni Hinrich)
• Luigi Pavese
  Luigi Pavese
  Luigi Pavese was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 173 films between 1916 and 1970.He was born in Asti, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* La Damigella di Bard...
  
   – Thenardier
• Jone Romano – La Thenardier
• Gino Cavalieri
  Gino Cavalieri
  Gino Cavalieri was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 23 films between 1937 and 1983.-Selected filmography:* The Priest's Wife * Arrivano i nostri * Toto the Third Man...
  
   – L'archivista della polizia
• Massimo Pianforini – Il vescovo Myriel
• Duccia Giraldi – Cosetta da bambina
• Nino Marchetti
  Nino Marchetti
  Nino Marchetti was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 66 films between 1934 and 1973. He was married to the actress Celeste Almieri.-Selected filmography:* Latin Lovers...
  
  
• Alba Settacioli (as Alba Setaccioli)
• Andreina Pagnani – Suor Simplicia
• Aldo Nicodemi – Marius
• Joop van Hulzen – Il barone Gillenormand
• Delia Orman – Eponine
• Ugo Sasso – Enjolras
• Rinaldo Smordoni – Gavroche (uncredited)
• Luigi Garrone (as Luigi A. Garrone)
• Dino Maronetto
• Franco Balducci
  Franco Balducci
  Franco Balducci is an Italian film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1947 and 1978. He was born in Umbria, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Les Misérables * Two Women * La bellezza di Ippolita...
  
  
• Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...
  
   – Un rivoluzionario
• Giuseppe Pierozzi
• Ada – Duccia (uncredited)
• Gabriele Ferzetti
  Gabriele Ferzetti
  Gabriele Ferzetti is an Italian actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s....
  
   – Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
• Luisa Leonardi – La sorvegliante della fabbrica (uncredited)

Differences to the novel

• The baker from whom Valjean steals the bread shoots him.
• Neither Valjean's sister nor her children (for whom he originally stole) are mentioned.
• Valjean is number 872 in prison (in the book it's 24601 and 9430) and he is released after 18 years.
• Javert is introduced in the prison, watching closely over Valjean. In the book he is not introduced before Montreuil-sur-Mer
• Valjean only confesses his identity after getting advice from Fantine's nurse.
• The confession is sent directly to Javert via letter.
• The factory of Madeleine is an iron foundry - but the industrial revolution had not progressed that far.
• A random worker starts a fire that leads to several people's death to allow Valjean to escape.
• Valjean rescues Cosette on a Christmas Eve - yet all the trees still have leaves.
• The scenes in the convent are left out.
• Marius meets Cosette after hiding in Valjean's house and trying to force Valjean at gunpoint to send the police away - which Valjean does anyway.
• Valjean runs into Thénardier when he goes to Gorbeau street to warn Marius to stay away from Cosette.
• It is only after Cosette begs that Valjean goes to the barricade to save Marius.
• Javert never goes to the barricade and Valjean never saves his life.
• Marius is the son of Baron Gillenormand, the prefect of police, and has changed his name to Pontmercy. As such he is immune and cannot be prosecuted after the riot.
• One gets the feeling that the real reason for Javert's suicide is the fact that the Prefect of Police (the highest authority in the police) will not press charges because the offender is his son. In addition, he says that the man who rescued his son must be a good man, despite Javert's insistence that he is an ex-convict. The claim that his belief ("Criminals cannot change") was shattered by Valjean's goodness has no grounds.
• At the day of Cosette's and Marius' wedding, Valjean is told by the Prefect that a man called Thénardier had important revelations to him. Valjean goes to confront Thénardier, who shoots him and then falls through a trapdoor to his death. Valjean makes it back to his house after the wedding and dies while Cosette reads to him from an adventure novel.