Opening Credits[]
- a production: Bruno Bozzetto film
- "Allegro Non Troppo"
- subject and script: Bruno Bozzetto, Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti
- main contributors to animated drawings: Giuseppe Laganà, Walter Cavazzuti (RDA 70), Giovanni Ferrari (RDA 70), Giancarlo Cereda, Giorgio Valentini, Guido Manuli, Paolo Albicocco (RDA 70), Giorgio Forlani (RDA 70)
- director of photography with animated drawings and special effects: Luciano Marzetti
- director of photography from life: Mario Masini
- editing and sound effects: Giancarlo Rossi
- direction: Bruno Bozzetto
Ending Credits[]
- Happy End
- played by (in order of appearance):
- The Cleaning Girl - Marialuisa Giovannini
- The Orchestra Master - Néstor Garay
- The Presenter - Maurizio Micheli
- The Animator - Maurizio Nichetti
- and with: Mirella Falco, Osvaldo Salvi, Jolanda Cappi, Franca Mantelli
- they collaborated on the animated drawings
- animation: Giovanni Ferrari (RDA 70), Walter Cavazzuti (RDA 70), Giuseppe Laganà, Giorgio Valentini, Edo Cavalli, Roberto Casale, Angelo Beretta (RDA 70), Mirna Masina
- animation help: Stefano Nuzzolese (RDA 70), Pierangelo Veggetti (RDA 70), Carlo Beretta (RDA 70)
- plasticine animation: Master Programmi Audiovisivi S.r.l.
- scenography: Giancarlo Cereda, Giuseppe Laganà, Paolo Albicocco (RDA 70), Giorgio Forlani (RDA 70)
- other collaborators (in alphabetical order): Carlo Caccialanza, Antonio Dall'Osso, Angela Garavaldi (RDA 70), Ivano Gorla (RDA 70), Grazia Lamura, Annalisa Paulon, Daniela Pescò, Anna Pezzotta, Gianfranco Pirovano, Modesto Rizzolo, Flora Sperotto, Rosy Tesè
- they collaborated on the live shots
- assistant director: Maurizio Nichetti
- operator: Aldo Antonelli
- edition secretary: Antonietta Gianesin
- production inspector: Renato Sardini
- production director: Grazia Grossi
- costume designer: Lia Morandini
- trick: Giuliana De Carli
- makeup help: Walter Gazzano
- hair salon: Luisa Piovesan
- seamstress: Maria Ariolfo
- mimicry advice: Marise Flach
- the musical pieces
- "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" Of Claude Debussy
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Herbert von Karajan - "Slavonic Dance No. 7" Of Antonín Dvorák
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Herbert von Karajan - "Boléro" Of Maurice Ravel
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Herbert von Karajan - "Valse Triste" Of Jean Sibelius
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Herbert von Karajan - "Concert in C-Major" Of Antonio Vivaldi
Munich Chamber Orchestra directed by Hans Stadlmair - "The Firebird" Of Igor Stravinsky
the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Lorin Maazel - are engraved on discs: Deutsch Grammophon
- "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" Of Claude Debussy
- the motifs of the ballets are by: Franco Godi
- The orchestra represented in the film has no connection with the symphony orchestras who actually performed the music.
- We thank the City of Bergamo for providing the Teatro Donizetti for the live-action filming.
- color: Technicolor®