Schauspieler:
Sean Connery (Major General Roy Urquhart), Robert Redford (Major Cook), Michael Caine (Lieutenant Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur), Ryan O'Neal (Brigadier General Gavin), Dirk Bogarde (Lieutenant General Frederick Browning), Gene Hackman (Major General Stanisław Sosabowski), Laurence Olivier (Doctor Spaander), Anthony Hopkins (Lt. Col. Frost), Hardy Krüger (Maj. Gen. Ludwig), James Caan (Staff Sergeant Eddie Dohun), Edward Fox (Lieutenant General Horrocks), Siem Vroom (Underground Leader), Marlies van Alcmaer (Underground Leader's Wife), Erik van 't Wout (Underground Leader's Son), Wolfgang Preiss (Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt), Hans von Borsody (Gen. Blumentritt), Josephine Peeper (Cafe Waitress), Paul Maxwell (Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor), Walter Kohut (Field Marshal Model), Peter Faber (Capt. 'Harry' Bestebreurtje), Hartmut Becker (German Sentry), Frank Grimes (Maj. Fuller), Jeremy Kemp (R.A.F. Briefing Officer), Donald Pickering (Lt. Col. Mackenzie), Donald Douglas (Brig Lathbury), Peter Settelen (Lt. Cole), Stephen Moore (Maj. Steele), Michael Byrne (Lt. Col. Giles Vandeleur), Paul Copley (Pvt. Wicks), Nicholas Campbell (Capt. Glass), Gerald Sim (Col. Sims), Elliott Gould (Stout), Liv Ullmann (Kate Ter Horst), Maximilian Schell (Bittrich)

Regie:
Richard Attenborough

Drehbuch:
William Goldman

Kamera:
Geoffrey Unsworth

Musik:
John Addison