In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

Gina Lollobrigida
as Sylvia Sorrego / Helena Ricci

Jean-Claude Pascal
as Pierre Martel

Arletty
as Blanche

Raymond Pellegrin
as Mario

Peter van Eyck
as Fred

Jean Témerson
as Xavier Noblet

Jean Hébey
as Police commissioner

Lila Kedrova
as Rose

Margo Lion
as La première

Jo Dest
as Karl, boss of the bistro