The Assault
Synopsis
Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers on board. No one knows exactly what the terrorists’ intentions are, just that they are armed and extremely determined. They demand the liberation of their “brothers in arms” and want the aircraft to take off at once. After very lengthy and intense negotiations between the French and Algerian governments, the plane is finally allowed to leave. There are three main characters at the heart of the action: a member of the GIGN, Carole Jeanton, an ambitious technocrat willing to do anything it takes to achieve personal gain from the events, and Yahia Abdallah, a determined jihadist who grew up in the slums of Algiers and was being manipulated by an obscure GIA envoy, Ali Touchent. Each one will follow their own ideology until their paths cross in the final outcome. In front of an audience of 21 million television viewers, an assault by the GIGN brings the hostage crisis to an end. Never, in the history of terrorism had a crisis such as this arisen. It was to be a foretaste of the terrible events of September 11th 2001.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Labyrinthe Films
- Associate producer : Backup Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Elle Driver
- French distribution : Mars Films
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Julien Madon
- Screenwriters : Simon Moutaïrou, Julien Leclercq
- Director of Photography : Thierry Pouget
- Music Composers : Jean-Jacques Hertz, François Roy
- Assistant Director : Thierry Lecomte
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Sans
- Costume designer : Muriel Legrand
- Line Producer : Marc Olla
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Sound Editor : Sébastien Marquilly
- Production Designer : Jean-Philippe Moreaux
- Foley artist : Florian Fabre
- Casting : Pierre-Jacques Bénichou
- Sound Mixer : Sébastien Ariaux
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Action
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- French release : 09/03/2011
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 124.144
- Visa issue date : 04/03/2011
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Rating restrictions : Suitable for all viewers, with warnings
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