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7 Days in Entebbe: Directed by José Padilha. With Batsheva Dance Company, Zina Zinchenko, Ben Schnetzer, Daniel Brühl. Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.
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- Action, Drama, History
- José Padilha
- 2018-03-16
Entebbe [3] (titled 7 Days in Entebbe in the U.S.) is a 2018 action thriller film [2] directed by José Padilha and written by Gregory Burke. The film recounts the story of the Entebbe raid, a 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation, and stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl.
- Were Jews and Non-Jews Separated by The Terrorists?
- Did A Woman Fake A Pregnancy to Get Off The plane?
- Was The Israeli Commando A Real person?
- Did The Air France Crew Choose to Stay with The Passengers?
- Were The German Terrorists Reluctant to Use Violence?
- Did Kuhlmann Leave The Compound to Phone Her boyfriend?
- Is It True That The Mission Nearly Failed?
- Did All The Hostages Who Died in The Raid Die in The compound?
Although the movie suggests that the terrorists distinguished between Jews and non-Jews, this was not strictly the case. According to David, the division was actually between the Israeli passengers and a few visibly orthodox Jews. “It’s long been trotted out that there was a deliberate policy to separate the Jews from the non-Jews, but that was fra...
In 7 Days in Entebbe, a woman played by Andrea Deck pretends to be pregnant and having a miscarriage in order to get off the plane when it is diverted to Benghazi, Libya. This series of events is true: British-born Patricia Martel, who emigrated to Israel, really did fake a pregnancy and miscarriage to get released by the hijackers. According to Da...
No, actor Ben Schnetzer’s character, an Israeli commando who feels conflicted about carrying out the potentially lethal raid, is fictional. Also invented for the story is his dancer girlfriend, whose dramatic routine is used as a slightly strange tension-building device throughout the movie. But the commando is meant to serve a purpose for audience...
In the movie, the Air France crew is given the opportunity to leave the airport compound in Entebbe and return home, but they bravely decide to stay with the mainly Israeli hostages. In reality, that wasn’t exactly how events unfolded. “The story of the crew has always been quite a controversial one,” says David. “When they were rescued and got bac...
Despite carrying out a terrorist plot, Pike’s and Brühl’s characters are portrayed in a fairly sympathetic light in 7 Days in Entebbe, and at times their reluctance to use violence to control the hostages causes tension between them and their Palestinian counterparts. It’s unclear whether the pair, particularly Brühl, really was as averse to violen...
No. At one point in the movie, Kuhlmann is seen leaving the compound and heading to the airport terminal to make a breathy phone call to her boyfriend, Gerd Schnepel. This entire scene is fictional, according to David. When he interviewed Schnepel for his book, the former terrorist told him that he did not know any details about the operation and d...
Prior to the release of David’s book, Yonatan ‘Yoni’ Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s older brother, had been perceived as the main hero of the intervention. But as the movie, and David’s book, make clear, many errors were made and the mission almost failed due to the older Netanyahu’s mistakes — particularly his decision to s...
No. What’s not shown in the movie is the tragic death of dual Israeli-British citizen Dora Bloch, the fourth victim of the event. When Bloch choked on a meat bone a day and a half before the raid, the terrorists allowed her to go to hospital in Kampala to have it removed from her throat. Bloch recovered quickly, but the minister of health in Uganda...
- Kate Samuelson
In July 1976, four terrorists hijack an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris and force the flight crew to land in Entebbe, Uganda. There, the Jewish passengers are held hostage, with their ...
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- José Padilha
- PG-13
- Daniel Brühl
Mar 16, 2018 · For someone like me, who was only dimly aware of this historical incident, 7 Days in Entebbe is a fascinating and, to my eyes, fair dramatization of that agonizingly long week—allowing the event’s heroes to be heroes without wholly demonizing its villains.
- José Padilha
Mar 16, 2018 · In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
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Four hijackers take over an airplane bound to Entebbe, Uganda in 1976 in an effort to free of dozens of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Awards. 2018: Berlin Film Festival: Oficial Selection (Out of Competition) Show all. Critics' reviews.
