Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Yves Montand
as Philip Michael Santore
Renato Salvatori
as Captain Lopez
O.E. Hasse
as Carlos Ducas
Jacques Weber
as Hugo
Jean-Luc Bideau
as Este
Maurice Teynac
as Minister of Internal Security
Yvette Etiévant
as Woman Senator
Gloria Laso
as Rafaela
Harald Wolff
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
Evangeline Peterson
as Mrs. Santore
Nemesio Antúnez
as President of the Republic
Mario Montilles
as Assistant Commissioner Fontant
