Claude Chabrol	...	(Director)
Odile Barski, Hervé Bromberger	...	(Writer)
Isabelle Huppert	...	Violette Nozière
Stéphane Audran	...	Germaine Nozière
Jean Carmet	...	Baptiste Nozière
Jean-François Garreaud	...	Jean Dabin
Guy Hoffmann	...	Le juge / Judge
Jean Dalmain	...	Émile
Lisa Langlois	...	Maddy
François Maistre	...	Monsieur Mayeul
Philippe Procot	...	Me Vésine-Larue
Bernard Alane	...	Le fils Pinguet
Mario David	...	Le directeur de la prison / Prison director
Henri-Jacques Huet	...	Le commissaire Guillaume / Commissioner Guilleaume
Fabrice Luchini	...	Camus, l'étudiant
Greg Germain	...	Le musicien noir (as Grégory Germain)
Zoé Chauveau	...	Zoé
Maurice Vaudaux	...	Willy
Didier Valmont	...
Dora Doll	...	Madame Mayeul
Bruno Rozenker	...	L'étudiant au café
Jean-Pierre Coffe	...	Le docteur Déon
Jean Parédès	...	Le chanteur de la complaine / Street Singer
Henri Attal	...
Jean-Marie Arnoux	...
Albert Augier	...
Serge Bento	...	Le directeur de l'hôpital
Serge Berry	...
Suzanne Berthois	...	La gardienne de prison
Jean Cherlian	...
Louise Chevalier	...
Jean Depussé	...
Jean-François Dupas	...	Inspector Champs-de Mars
Michel Duplaix	...
Benoît Ferreux	...
Carine François	...
François-Eric Gendron	...	1st Student
Florence Guerfy	...
Raoul Guylad	...
Jeanne Herviale	...	La grand-mère
Jacqueline Jako-Mica	...
Marius Laurey	...
Rudy Lenoir	...
Jean-Claude Monteil	...	(as Jean-Claude Monteils)
Sylvie Moreau	...
Bernard Papineau	...
Marco Pauly	...
Jacqueline Pierreux	...	Une ménagère
Priscilla Saillard	...	Violette Nozière enfant / Violette Nozière as a child
Gilbert Servien	...
Emmanuelle Stochl	...
Frédérique Tirmont	...
Roland Travers	...
Francis Terzian	...
Dominique Zardi	...
Bernadette Lafont	...	La co-détenue / Cellmate

Summary: In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.