Entebbe

Name: Entebbe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie

2018

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5.7

Title: Entebbe

Original Title: Entebbe

Year: 2018

Info

Country: USA
Length: 107 Minutes (1 hour 47 min)
Genre: Crime Drama Thriller
Studios: Participant Media Working Title Films
Distributor: eOne Films Spain

Release Dates

UK: May 11 2018
United States: March 16 2018

Plot

The International Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, became the center of the world the 27th of June, 1976. A terrorist group kidnapped an Air France plane coming from Tel Aviv, and made it land in the African country. Two Palestinian of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and two German from the Revolutionary Cells were the brain of the operation. Hijackers demanded for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, Germany and Sweden, but since a majority of the hostages were Jew, the shadow of Nazism didn't take long to appear. Israeli army starred one of the most astonishing rescue missions in History. José Padilha, who helmed 'Elite Squad', directs this film inspired in actual facts, and which stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl.

Cast

Director:

José Padilha José Padilha

Brigitte Kuhlmann

Wilfried Böse

Shimon Peres

Idi Amin

General Motta Gur

Videos

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'Entebbe' Trailer

December 15 2017

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Trivia

The book that revealed it

StudioCanal optioned the rights to 'Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History' (published December 1, 2015), by Saul David. The book contains information that had previously not been available for books written about Operation Thunderbolt, due to classification and security reasons.

Chance

A lot of the film was shot in Luqa, Malta, at the International airport. A day after filming wrapped in Malta, a real hijacked Libyan airplane landed very close to where the set was.

A new vision

This story has been told before, but not quite like this, considering the new information that is now available. The movies that told this story were 'Raid on Entebbe' (1976), 'Victory at Entebbe' (1976), and 'Operation Thunderbolt' (1977).