Violette

Marie-Aline Thomassin as La secrétaire de Jacques Guérin Richard Chevallier as Louis Jouvet Fabrizio Rongione as Yvon Belaval Vincent Schmitt as Un forain Sandrine Kiberlain as Simone de Beauvoir Nicole Colchat as Madame Belaval Josette Ménard as La femme de ménage Claudine Acs as La vieille dame Audrey Quoturi as Cliente librairie (uncredited) Stanley Weber as Le jeune maçon Catherine Hiegel as Berthe Leduc Jacques Bonnaffé as Jean Genet Nathalie Richard as Hermine Florent Bigot de Nesles as L'homme sur le chemin Jean Toscane as Monsieur Motté Erwan Creignou as Marcel Pierre-Alain Chapuis as Jacques Lemarchand Olivier Gourmet as Jacques Guérin Frans Boyer as Le jeune paysan Olivier Py as Maurice Sachs Jean-Paul Dubois as Ernest Paulette Frantz as Madame Moustier Valérie Kéruzoré as La secrétaire des éditions Gallimard Sylvie Jobert as La libraire Thierry Nenez as Le concierge Pierre Gribling as Jacques, le mari de Violette Emmanuelle Devos as Violette Leduc Marc Faure as Gaston Gallimard Laure Sirieix as La journaliste Isabelle Sprung as Une villageoise

Philippe van Leer Foley Artist Marie-France Michel Casting Miléna Poylo Producer Madeline Fontaine Costume Design Emmanuel Croset Sound Re-Recording Mixer Martin Provost Director, Screenplay Emmanuel de Boissieu Foley Mixer Gilles Sacuto Producer Brigitte Moidon Casting Arvo Pärt Additional Soundtrack