The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Helmut Berger
as Wilfried Böse
Theodore Bikel
as Yakov Shlomo
Linda Blair
as Chana Vilnofsky
Kirk Douglas
as Herschel Vilnofsky
Richard Dreyfuss
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Stefan Gierasch
as General Mordecai Gur
David Groh
as Benjamin Wise
Julius Harris
as President Idi Amin
Helen Hayes
as Etta Grossman-Wise
Anthony Hopkins
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Burt Lancaster
as Shimon Peres
Christian Marquand
as Captain Dukas
