An Air France Flight
139 from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens with 248 passengers and a crew of 12 is hijacked on 27 June 1976. Two
Palestinians and two Germans were in charge of the operation. Two hijackers were members of
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine- External Operations. The other two hijackers were members of the
German Revolutionary Cells. At the airport, the
passengers were separated into two categories, Jewish and
non-Jewish. Their demand was freedom
for 40 Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons plus 13 prisoners in
four other countries and a ransom of $5 million. The flight landed in Entebbe Uganda and Ugandan President Idi
Amin personally welcomed the hostages.
A LOT of the information
above is not given in the film including the number of passengers, the number
of crew members and many other relevant facts. This is supposed to be an action film but there is very
little real action? It’s a lot of
yelling and bullying of innocent people not involved with or responsible for anything the
terrorists stand for? When Idi
Amin was controlling Uganda, this was not a country friendly to the landing of
an unwanted plane filled with unwanted people!!
(2 ½* this movie is so-so)
107
min, Action directed by Jose Padilha with Batsheva Dance Company, Zina
Zinchenko, Ben Schnetzer, Daniel Bruhl, Amir Khoury, Ala Dakka, Rosamund Pike,
Paloma Coquant, Trudy Weiss, Danny Scheinmann, Brontis Jadorowsky, Denis
Menochet, Gal Pertsiger, Saffron Scheinmann.
Note: Imdb 5.8 out of 10, Roger Ebert 2*,
Amazon 2.5* out of 5* with 148 reviews, Metacritic 49 out of 100 with 29
critics 5.8 out of 10 with 34 reviews, Common Sense Media age 14+, 1* positive
messages, 1* role models, 4* violence, 3* language 2* drinking, drugs &
smoking.
Special
Note: Filmed in Malta and the
UK. The plane landing shots were
filmed at Malta International Airport in Luqa. The day after filming wrapped, a real-life hijacked Libyan
plane landed very close to the set.
Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu participated in the raid of the airport by IDF
commandos and he is the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu. Benjamin became Prime Minister of
Israel in 2009. Replica hand grenades and pistols were used. Dorah Block is listed as one of the
casualties of the IDF raid but she didn’t die during the raid. She became ill early in the siege and she
was sent to a hospital in nearby Kampala. Two army officers following the orders
of Idi Amin murdered Dorah and the murder was in retaliation for the Israeli
raid. Some of her doctors and
nurses were also murdered because they intervened and cared for Dorah.
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