 | Roy Scheider als Col. Jack Knowles |
 | Jürgen Prochnow als Col. Valachev |
 | Lara Harris als Elena |
 | Harry Dean Stanton als Gen. Hackworth |
 | Dale Dye als Sergeant Major |
 | Tim Reid als Lt. Col. Clark |
 | William MacDonald als MP Corporal |
 | David Palffy als Gawky Soldier |
 | Neil Grahn als Needle-Nose Soldier |
 | Ernie Jackson als Knowles Driver |
| Ron Campbell als Young US Soldier |
| John Dodds als Defector |
| Richard Durven als Young Soldier |
| Harold Hecht Jr. als Dwayne |
| Alice Pesta als Hannelore |
| Gregory A. Gale als Communications Corporal |
| Henry Kope als Mayor |
 | Guy Buller als Czech Guard |
| George Scholl als Innkeeper |
| John Frankenheimer | Director |
| Stephen Peters | Novel |
| Stephen Peters | Screenplay |
| Alan Manzer | Production Design |
| Rick Roberts | Art Direction |
| Bill Conti | Original Music Composer |
| Robert F. Shugrue | Editor |
| Gerry Fisher | Director of Photography |
| Janice Blackie-Goodine | Set Decoration |
| Ray Summers | Costume Design |
| Kenneth Ross | Screenplay |
| Wolf Schmidt | Producer |
| William Stuart | Executive Producer |
| Sam Perlmutter | Executive Producer |
| Harold Jack Bloom | Associate Producer |
| Robert L. Rosen | Line Producer |
| Iloe Flewelling | Hairstylist |
| Louis Lazzara | Makeup Supervisor |
| Les Kimber | Production Manager |
| Julia Done | Third Assistant Director |
| Don French | First Assistant Director |
| Robert L. Rosen | Second Unit Director |
| Howard Rothschild | Second Assistant Director |
| Joe Thornton | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Alfred A. Arndt | Construction Coordinator |
| Sean Blackie | Set Dresser |
| Dean Goodine | Props |
| George Griffiths | Standby Painter |
| Tedd Kuchera | Set Dresser |
| Fred Lucky | Production Illustrator |
| Gary Clayton Ripley | Painter |
| Arthur Shippee | Property Master |
| Warren Simmons | Carpenter |
| Ken Wills | Set Dresser |
| James Dean Fisher | Foley Artist |
| Grover B. Helsley | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Uri Katoni | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Mike Le Mare | Sound Designer |
| Mike Le Mare | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Anthony Palk | Sound Effects Editor |
| Troy Porter | Foley Mixer |
| John Post | Foley Artist |
| Michael Rafferty | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Karola Storr | Foley Editor |
| George Tarrant | Sound Mixer |
| Doug E. Turner | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| John Wilkinson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Grant Burdette | Special Effects |
| Lee Routly | Special Effects Assistant |
| Maurice Routly | Special Effects Assistant |
| Joanne Hansen | Costume Supervisor |
| Gilbert Loe | Costume Supervisor |
| Phil Hetos | Color Timer |
| Neale Joudrie | Assistant Location Manager |
| Murray Ord | Location Manager |
| Jack Eskew | Orchestrator |
| Ken Johnson | Music Editor |
| William Kidd | Orchestrator |
| Steve Livingston | Music Editor |
| Karen Bédard | Script Supervisor |
| Renate Schneuer | Script Supervisor |
| Lynne Bespflug | Production Coordinator |
| Tim A. Davison | Stunts |
| Allan Graf | Stunt Coordinator |
| Brent Woolsey | Stunt Coordinator |
| Guy Bews | Stunts |
| Tom Bews | Stunts |
| Tom Eirikson | Stunts |
| Jim Finkbeiner | Stunts |
| Wayne Fullerton | Stunts |
| Jason Glass | Stunts |
| Reg Glass | Stunts |
| Tom Glass | Stunts |
| Tony Morelli | Stunts |
| Jacob Rupp | Stunts |
| Greg Schlosser | Stunts |
| Brent Woolsey | Stunts |
| Les Kimber | Unit Production Manager |
| Frank C. Spolar | Associate Producer |
| Bette Chadwick | Casting |
| John Gregor | Set Dresser |
| Darryl Elliott | Set Dresser |
| Randy Schrader | Greensman |
| Bruce Hosick | Props |
| David Crone | Camera Operator |
| Armin Matter | Camera Operator |
| James Head | First Assistant Camera |
| Perry Hoffman | First Assistant Camera |
| Dan Heather | Second Assistant Camera |
| Jim Stacey | Second Assistant Camera |
| Bob Akester | Still Photographer |
| Don Miernecki | Camera Trainee |
| Dale H. Jahraus | Camera Trainee |
| Mary Rosen | Assistant Editor |
| Cheryl Burke | Assistant Editor |
| Greg Jacobs | Dialogue Editor |
| Ron Williams | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Jim Gregor | Lighting Technician |
| T. Dean Merrells | Lighting Technician |
| Rod Merrells | Generator Operator |
| Tom D. May | Key Grip |
| Ivan Hawkes | Best Boy Grip |
| Rex Cooley | Dolly Grip |
| Leonard Schmidt | Grip |
| Gordon Schmidt | Grip |
| Allen Hosick | Costumer |
| B.J. Elliott | Costumer |
| Rose Johnson | Costumer |
| Dianne Jolly | Seamstress |
| Al Magallon | Makeup Supervisor |
| Braden Wright | Publicist |
| Nancy Gullett | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Heather Meehan | Production Secretary |
| Marilyn Moyer | Production Accountant |
| Patricia Compton | Assistant Accountant |
| Mary Goose | Assistant Accountant |
| Ed Soibelman | Dialogue Coach |
| Cy Barry | Transportation Coordinator |
| Dennis Pugh | Transportation Captain |
| Jaci Majer | Extras Casting |
| Rhonda Grayson | Assistant Extras Casting |
| Barbara Harris | ADR Voice Casting |
| Mary Hosick | Craft Service |
| Brenda Cooley | Craft Service |
| J. Barry Herron | Second Unit Director of Photography |
