Operation Thunderbolt: The Entebbe Hostage Rescue (1977)
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1h 0min
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- Synopsis:
- On June 27th 1976 an Air France plane was taken over by terrorists and instead of flying to Paris,landed in Entebbe,Uganda. Behind the scenes the Israeli forces (the IDF) planned a rescue attempt which was put into action a week later. Here director Gary Tarpinian's uses footage of this successful rescue (Operation Thunderbolt) from the archives of Mossad and the IDF alongside interviews with former hostages,intelligence agents and IDF members.
- Actors:
- Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Sybil Danning, Arik Lavie, Shmuel Rodensky, Shaike Ophir, Reuven Bar-Yotam, Gabi Amrani, Mark Heath, Henri Czarniak, Rolf Eden, Shoshana Shani, Oded Teomi, Shimon Bar, Ori Levy, Rachel Marcus, Yehuda Efroni, Yossi Graber
- Directors:
- Menahem Golan
- Writers:
- Ken Globus, Menahem Golan
- Aka:
- Mivtsa Yonatan
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- Israel
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