António Capelo as Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

Manuel Wiborg as Capitão Salgueiro Maia

Marcantonio Del Carlo as Tenente Coronel Garcia dos Santos

Vítor Norte as Major Comando Jaime Neves

Alexandre de Sousa as Comandante Vítor Crespo

Júlio Cardoso as General António de Spínola

José Manuel Mendes as Marcello Caetano

Jorge Gonçalves as Major Sanches Osório

Artur Ramos as Brigadeiro Junqueira dos Reis

André Gago as Brito e Cunha

Cristina Carvalhal as Clarisse Guerra (Locutora)

Eurico Lopes as Joaquim Furtado (Jornalista)

Francisco Pestana as Tenente Coronel Lopes Pires

João Cardoso as António de Spínola

Luís Esparteiro as Costa Neves

Heitor Lourenço as Sottomayor

Alfredo Brito as António Romeiras

Nelson Cabral as Soldado

Luís Alberto as Adriano Pires

Jorge Sequerra as Nascimento

Alberto Villar as Correia de Campos