Overview
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.
Cast
- 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