| Cast list | | Arliss Howard | as | John Limbert | | Jeff Fahey | as | Hamilton Jordan | | Alice Krige | as | Parveneh Limbert | | Tony Goldwyn | as | Jody Powell | | Daniel Gélin | as | Shah | | George Grizzard | as | President Jimmy Carter | | Ronald Guttman | as | Hossein | | Keith Edwards | as | Bill Belk | | Ving Rhames | as | Charles Jones | | Debra Sandlund | as | Debra Scott | | Graydon Gould | as | Col. Tom Schaeffer | | Marianne Borgo | as | Empress Farah | | Didier Flamand | as | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh | | Valérie Kaprisky | as | Zaleh | | Garfield Andrews | as | Reporter | | Yossi Ashdot | as | Hamid | | Avraham Bar-Orion | as | Mullah | | Pixie Bigelow | as | President's secretary | | Jonathon Breakstone | as | Marine Corporal | | Jonathan Cherchi | as | Zafir | | Sharon Dyer | as | Eleanor | | Daniel Ephrat | as | Shervin | | Meirav Gary | as | Mrs. Rafsheedi | | David Gillum | as | Paul Costello | | Jeff Gurner | as | Marine Sergeant | | Richard Hardacre | as | Reporter | | Elki Jacobs | as | Anita Schaeffer | | Yossi Kenan | as | Prof. Rafsheedi | | Charles Kerr | as | Lloyd Cuttler | | Shoshi Marciano | as | Woman militant | | Mac McDonald | as | Dale Leibach | | Graham McPherson | as | Col Beckwith | | Micha Morrim | as | Iranian captain | | Leon Pownall | as | National Security Advisor | | George R. Robertson | as | Secretary Cyrus Vance | | Natalie Roth | as | Mani | | Carolyn Scott | as | Reporter | | Josef Shilda | as | Gabreel | | Dan Turgeman | as | Sayyed | | Bob Zidel | as | Shah's advisor |
| | Crew list: | | Kevin Connor (Director) | | Tim Wells (Writer) | | Reg Gadney (Writer) |
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