L'ASSAUT
Genre: Action, Thriller
Director: Julien Leclercq
Screenplay: Simon Moutaïrou, Julien Leclercq
Running time: 1h 30 min
Starring: Vincent Elbaz, Gregori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier
Distributor: Screenmedia
France, March 2011
SYNOPSIS
Saturday, December 24, 1994.
Four GIA terrorists (Algerian Islamist Group) take an Air France Airbus-300 and its 227 people on board hostage at the Algiers airport. Their intentions are unknown; they are armed and very determined. The terrorists insist their fellow fighters be set free and demand immediate take-off of the plane. Finally, after extensive diplomatic negotiations between the governments of France and Algeria and the execution of three passengers, the plane takes off and lands in Marseille at 3:33 AM on Monday, December 26.
Three characters, Thierry, a soldier with GIGN (the French SWAT team), Carole Jeanton, an ambitious technocrat, and Yahia Abdalla are central to the plot. Witnessed by 21 million TV viewers, the SWAT team attack will put an end to this unprecedented hostage taking…..but heralds the terrible events of September 11, 2001.
More info: http://www.focusonfrenchcinema.com/film_LAssault.htm
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