
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.

Jean Richard
Agénor Fenouillard

Bernard Blier
A traveler (uncredited)

Sophie Desmarets
Léocadie Fenouillard

Annie Sinigalia
Cunégonde
Marie-José Ruiz
Artémise

Bruno Balp
Little Bara

Jean Bellanger

Charles Bouillaud

Madeleine Clervanne
Mrs. de Bréauté-Beuzeville

Gérard Darrieu
'Souris-Bibi'
Gilbert Denoyan
Harris

Hubert Deschamps
The schoolmaster
André Gille
'Follichon'
Roger Pelletier