Also Known As:
- Estado de sitio
- State of Siege
- Der unsichtbare Aufstand
- Estado de Sítio
- Gidslet
- Gisslan
- Hälytystila
- Katastasis poliorkias
- L'amerikano
- Ostromállapot
- Stan oblezenia
- Costa-Gavras
- Costa-Gavras
- Franco Solinas
- Yves Montand ... Philip Michael Santore
- Renato Salvatori ... Captain Lopez
- O.E. Hasse ... Carlos Ducas
- Jacques Weber ... Hugo
- Jean-Luc Bideau ... Este
- Maurice Teynac ... Minister of Internal Security
- Yvette Etiévant ... Woman Senator
- Evangeline Peterson ... Mrs. Santore
- Harald Wolff ... Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Nemesio Antúnez ... President of the Republic
- Mario Montilles ... Assistant Commissioner Fontant
- André Falcon ... Deputy Fabbri
- Jerry Brouer ... Anthony Lee
- Roberto Navarrete ... Commissioner Romero
- Douglas Harris ... A.I.D. Director
- Gilbert Brandini ... Journalist
- Eugenio Guzmán ... Spokesman of uruguayan governement
- Jean-François Gobbi ... Journalist
- Maurice Jacquemont ... Dean of the Law School
- Aldo Francia ... Dr. Francia
- Eduardo Naveda ... Political Police Chief
- Rafael Benavente ... Brazilian Consul Campos
- Martha Contreras ... Alicia
- Robert Holmes ... Papal Nuncio
- Alejandro Cohen ... Manuel
- Gérard Manneveau ... Bardes
- Alejandro Misle ... President of the Assembly
- Julio Zarata ... Instructor at the Police Academy
- Jacques Perrin ... Telephone Operator
- Gloria Laso ... Tupamaro tortured militant (credit only)
- Alejandro Sieveking ... Enrique Macchi, extreme rightist JUP -Juventud Uruguaya de Pie- leader
- Sara Astica ... Tupamaros leader
- Jaime Azócar ... Tupamaro militant
- Shlomit Baytelman ... Militant
- Jorge Boudon ... Uruguayan citizen
- Guillermo Bruce ... Uruguayan policeman
- Lucho Córdova ... Uruguayan ambassador in Vaticane
- Armando Fenoglio ... Rightist uruguayan politic
- Tennyson Ferrada ... AID clerck
- Fernando Gallardo ... Uruguayan taxi driver
- Cristián García-Huidobro ... Militant
- Rebeca Gigliotto ... Tupamaro militant
- Rubén Darío Guevara ... Rightist uruguayan politician
- Juan Guzmán Tapia ... Uruguayan journalist
- Patricia Guzmán ... Tupamaro militant
- Enrique Heine ... Rightist uruguayan politic
- Agustín Moya ... Tupamaro militant
- Gloria Münchmeyer ... Tupamaros leader
- Héctor Noguera ... Tupamaro leader
- Alicia Quiroga ... Uruguayan citizen
- Jael Unger ... Tupamaros leader
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