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.
Lea
Shelley Winters
Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Max von Sydow
Stella Kraus / Carabiniere
Renato Pozzetto
Berta Maner / Banker
Alberto Lionello
Sandra
Laura Antonelli
Rosario
Mario Scaccia
Priest Don Onorio
Franco Branciaroli
Tina
Milena Vukotić
Maria
Rita Tushingham
Palma
Adriana Asti
Michele
Antonio Marsina
Crippled Neighbor
Liù Bosisio
Second Neighbor
Maria Monti
Lisa's Friend
Giancarlo Badessi
Student
Marco Modugno
Carabiniere
Alberto Squillante
Franco Balducci
Man in Police Station (uncredited)
Gérard Caillaud
Woman at Party (uncredited)
Catharina Dahlin
Man in Church (uncredited)
Giovanni Morosi
Lea (voice)
Regina Bianchi