Victory at Entebbe

Dec 22, 1976

1h 59m

★ 5.0

They considered every possibility - and then did the impossible !

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.

Genres

Action

Drama

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

David L. Wolper Productions

Victory at Entebbe Trailers

Cast

Wilfried Böse

Helmut Berger

Yakov Shlomo

Theodore Bikel

Chana Vilnofsky

Linda Blair

Herschel Vilnofsky

Kirk Douglas

Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Richard Dreyfuss

General Mordecai Gur

Stefan Gierasch

Benjamin Wise

David Groh

President Idi Amin

Julius Harris

Etta Grossman-Wise

Helen Hayes

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Anthony Hopkins

Shimon Peres

Burt Lancaster

Captain Dukas

Christian Marquand

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