The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Roland Alexandre
Elisa Cegani
Danièle Delorme
Gabriele Ferzetti
Renzo Giovampietro
Fosco Giachetti
Nadia Gray
Roldano Lupi
Paolo Stoppa
Vira Silenti
Myriam Bru
Marcello Mastroianni
Fausto Tozzi
Micheline Presle
Gustavo Serena
Andrea Mongelli
Aldo Ferracuti
Rosetta Calavetta
Juanita Satiman
Ken Neale
Fernando Lidonni
Arturo La Porta
Enrico Formichi
Nelly Corradi
Italo Tajo
Renata Tebaldi
Giulietta Simionato
Gianni Poggi
Giulio Neri
Marineri Meli
Gino Mattera
Tito Gobbi
Giuseppe Varni
Mario Del Monaco
Sergio Tofano
Aldo Silvani
Lauro Gazzolo
Memmo Carotenuto
Julien Carette
Manlio Busoni
Georges Bréhat
Märta Torén
Maurice Ronet
Renato Malavasi
Paola Rolando
Giuseppe Porelli
Danik Patisson
Claudio Ermelli
Giovanni Checchi
Mimo Billi
Antoine Balpêtré