7 days in Entebbe
| Movie | |
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| German title | 7 days in Entebbe |
| Original title | 7 days in Entebbe |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | José Padilha |
| script | Gregory Burke |
| production |
Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner , Ron Halpern , Kate Solomon , Michelle Wright |
| music | Rodrigo Amarante |
| camera | Lula Carvalho |
| cut | Daniel Rezende |
| occupation | |
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7 Days in Entebbe (original title 7 Days in Entebbe ) is an American-British thriller by José Padilha , which premiered out of competition on February 19, 2018 in the competition of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival . The film opened in US theaters on March 16, 2018 and in UK theaters on May 11. The German film start was May 3rd.
The film is based on a true story, Operation Entebbe . When the two Germans Brigitte Kuhlmann and Wilfried Böse , members of the Revolutionary Cells and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked an Air France plane in June 1976 , a detachment from the Israeli army freed the hostages.
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The Air France flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris is in June 1976 after a stopover in Athens hijacked by German and Palestinian terrorists. The two Germans Brigitte Kuhlmann and Wilfried Böse , members of the Revolutionary Cells , were previously trained for this action with two men from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a training camp in Yemen and were prepared not to show any sympathy. They deliberately hijacked an Air France plane because they accuse France of having helped Israel build up its military. Among other things, they want to free 40 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. The hijackers force the flight captain to stop in Benghazi to refuel. From there, the aircraft can continue to fly unmolested. Finally they force the pilot to land at the airport in the Ugandan city of Entebbe .
The next morning the hostages are taken to an empty terminal at the airport. There she is received by Uganda's President, the dictator Idi Amin, in person. He and his soldiers support the kidnappers. The two Germans guard the abductees while the Palestinians start negotiations with Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin , who is currently chairing a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, receives a message informing him of the kidnapping and the fact that there are 83 Israelis on board. He and Defense Secretary Shimon Peres learn from a British passenger who was released because she pretended to be pregnant that two of the kidnappers are German.
Peres advocates the use of the military, even if soldiers or hostages are killed in the process and diplomatic complications should arise as a result. Rabin thinks it would be wiser to negotiate, but sees no other way to maintain the state of state and agrees.
When the Israeli government, contrary to its previous policy, signaled its readiness to negotiate in order to deceive the kidnappers, they released a large number of the hostages. There is a dispute among the kidnappers because the Israelis are to be singled out and held hostage. Among them is an old woman who Wilfried Böse recognizes as a former concentration camp prisoner by the tattooed camp number on her arm . He is reluctant to take this approach because it reminds him of the selection of Jews by the National Socialists and he does not want to be taken for a Nazi. The pilot of the hijacked machine refuses to abandon the Israeli hostages and stays with the entire crew in the terminal.
Meanwhile, the Israeli secret service plans to free the hostages with a special unit of the Israeli armed forces . After satellite images have been evaluated, General Motta Gur recommended the deployment and the cabinet approved Operation Thunderbolt , Israeli transport planes land in Entebbe at night without the knowledge of the Ugandan government. The special unit approaches the terminal in a black limousine disguised as Idi Amin's state car . The soldiers storm the building, engage in a firefight with the Ugandan soldiers and shoot all the hostage-takers. Four hostages die, but 102 can be freed.
During the liberation campaign, a dance theater performance with the traditional Passover song Echad Mi Yodea takes place in Israel at the same time . Among the dancers is the girlfriend of the soldier Zeev Hirsch, who at this very moment in Entebbe is risking his life in the liberation of his compatriots.
Film analysis
Historical background
The film tells the story of the hijacking of an Air France passenger plane in June 1976 and the subsequent military liberation operation Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport , the former capital of Uganda . The kidnapping was carried out by Palestinian and German terrorists. Israeli elite soldiers flew unrecognized to Entebbe , where they only stayed for a total of 90 minutes. 102 mostly Israeli hostages and the Air France crew were finally flown to Israel after a stopover in Kenya. All seven hostage-takers present were killed during the rescue operation. Three of the last 105 hostages, around 20 Ugandan soldiers and an officer of the Israeli forces were killed in firefights.
Film genre and structure
The film was staged as a classic political drama and kidnapping thriller and borrows the style of the 1970s, which were the heyday of political thrillers. He puts the conflicts within the individual groups in the foreground, such as the discussions among the terrorists about the choice of means, the special moral implications for Germans of putting Jews again in danger, and the deliberations in the Israeli leadership as to which sacrifices are necessary to leave the State of Israel intact. The film constantly changes perspectives, shows the situation from the eyes of the Israeli government, the terrorists, the desperate hostages and the Israeli soldiers in the training camp.
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The film is divided into seven chapters that show the story of the week-long kidnapping. In the opening credits it is explained that the film is based on real events, but that some people were invented for dramaturgical reasons. The credits show pictures of the real hostages returning to Israel. The credits also reveal that Benjamin Netanyahu , the brother of the heroic commander of Operation Thunderbolt's attack force, Jonathan Netanyahu , later became Israel's prime minister.
Parallel story
The makers of the film added another layer to the story. Here a modern Israeli dance group is shown rehearsing a choreography. This is a dance piece by the Batsheva Dance Company from 1998 using the traditional song Echad Mi Yodea , which is sung at Passover and commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery. Taking off the classic Jewish Orthodox clothing in the play and in the film is, according to Padilha, a metaphor for “getting rid of a policy that prevents negotiations”. For Christian Ihle from taz, the dance performance in the final scene ultimately leaves more of an impression than the actual shooting. Sabine Horst from epd Film also thinks that the concept works out in the end, and that the premiere of the dance theater piece, which was mounted on the terminal parallel to the storm, is a scene in which Jewish self-confidence and terrible vulnerability are mixed. The attitude that the film adopts as a result points beyond the historical. Oliver Kaever from Zeit Online explains that the dance performance is the film's central metaphor, which Padilha repeatedly interweaves visually and acoustically with the plot.
production
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Directed by José Padilha . In the context of the Berlinale, Padilha said that he wanted to shed light on several facets of history with his film, show the interactions between hostages and terrorists and move away from the purely military narrative. He and his team specifically sought out contemporary witnesses and asked them about their impressions, the director continued, and contemporary witnesses were even present during the shoot. One of these is Jacques Lemoine, the flight engineer of the kidnapped passenger plane, who also answered questions from journalists at the Berlinale. Padilha said that although the whole thing happened in 1976, it had a lot to do with the here and now and his film should also be a key to understanding the current situation in the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
The script by Gregory Burke is based on the book Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport by the historian Saul David . Based on historical facts, the film tells the story of the hostage-taking from several perspectives, mainly from the point of view of the four kidnappers as well as from the point of view of the Israeli government, which finally decides on the military operation. For some scenes in the film, however, those responsible deliberately deviated from the historical facts for dramaturgical reasons. Padilha said that what interested him in his research was that the event should not be viewed as a military operation, as it has almost always been the case so far. After doing his own research and meeting with participants, contemporary witnesses and politicians for his fact check, he was on fire to stage his version of the Entebbe dramaturgy. The director saw the fact that, as a Brazilian, he was able to keep a neutral view of the heated Middle East debate as an advantage: “In Brazil, we don't deal much with Israel. You can tell what's happening, but it's not a big issue. "
The score was composed by Rodrigo Amarante . The soundtrack, which includes a total of 20 pieces of music, including pieces written for the film by the Brazilian singer-songwriter, The Tractor's Revenge and Ohad Naharin's version of Echad Mi Yodea , was available for download from Lakeshore Records on April 6, 2018 released. Naharin has been the director and creative head of the Batsheva Dance Company since 1990 , with whom he implemented Echad Mi Yodea as a dance performance in 1998 .
Cast and filming
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The German actor Daniel Brühl took on the role of Wilfried Böse , the founding member of the Revolutionary Cells and leader of the four-man kidnapping squad. His German accomplice Brigitte Kuhlmann is played by Rosamund Pike in the film . The Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi embodies Yitzhak Rabin , the then Prime Minister of Israel during the hostage-taking of mostly French and Israeli passengers. Natalie Stone plays his wife Leah Rabin . Eddie Marsan took on the role of then Defense Minister Shimon Peres . Angel Bonanni plays in the film Yonatan Netanyahu , the lieutenant colonel and commander of the special unit Sajeret Matkal, which is central to the rescue of hostages. The then Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is played by Nonso Anozie . Denis Ménochet plays Jacques Lemoine, the flight engineer of the kidnapped passenger plane. Ben Schnetzer plays the soldier Zeev Hirsch who was involved in the operation. The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Cay-Michael Wolf on behalf of Scalamedia GmbH, Berlin.
Filming took place in Malta and the United Kingdom and ended in early February 2017. The decommissioned Airbus A310 , which served as a backdrop for the filming, was provided by Pakistan International Airlines . The airline boss at the time, Bernd Hildenbrand , brought the retired aircraft to Leipzig / Halle Airport in Saxony after the shooting in Malta .
publication
The film celebrated its world premiere on February 19, 2018 as part of the Berlinale , was released in US cinemas on March 16, 2018 and in the UK on May 11, 2018. The cinema release in Germany took place on May 3, 2018.
reception
Age rating
In the US, the film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA . In Germany it was approved by the FSK from the age of 12, but allowed from the age of 6 if accompanied by the parents. The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film depicts the motivations of those involved, from the pro-Palestinian hostage-takers to the Israeli politicians, in a mostly calm, but tense narrative. The production largely dispenses with explicit depictions of violence . Nevertheless, the ongoing tension, the threat and fear of the hostages as well as individual moments of violence can emotionally overwhelm children under the age of 12. "
Reviews
Oliver Kaever said at the time : “The network of different injuries, motivations and interests in the Middle East conflict is too complex to explain in two hours. Padilha nevertheless forces it into a dramaturgical framework that soon begins to groan. ”The film stands for a cinema that only knows the answers and has forgotten how to ask questions.
Christian Schröder from Tagesspiegel says that the film works like clockwork that is approaching the finale in the countdown, but it is more about moral paradoxes: “When the kidnappers begin to separate their Israeli from non-Israeli victims, they follow the selection logic of the National Socialists."
Fabian Wallmeier from RBB 24 says that the back and forth between the perspectives paralyzes the film: “You never work on a character long enough to find it really interesting or even to cheer you on. That's a shame, because the rapid cut, together with the earthy coloring, is actually the greatest asset of the film. "
Michael Müller from the Christian media magazine pro says that the hostages of the Air France plane are hardly even characterized by the British film team: “The victims and their suffering hardly have a face. In contrast, the work allows larger parts of the plot of the background story of the two German terrorists. "
Sabine Horst from epd Film complains that José Padilhas 7 days in Entebbe takes back the enthusiasm for the military achievement without obscuring the fronts, and the film leaves no doubt about the political madness of the hijacking. The Germans Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann , portrayed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike , pushed the plot forward over long stretches, but practically covered themselves in the punched political dialogue. Horst sums it up: “After the feverish images of his award-winning police film Tropa de Elite und with the high-tech look of RoboCop, Padilha's staging seems unspectacular. But the restraint has a system: 7 days in Entebbe does not identify the viewer with the event - as Utøya does on July 22nd, which ran at the Berlinale in February and the Breivik massacre on the Norwegian island in 'real time' portrays the perspective of the victims. Rather, Padilha strengthens the discursive moment by distributing the attention to several storylines. That may not always work - the Palestinian terrorists remain shadowy in comparison with Böse and Kuhlmann. "
In the justification for the German film and media rating , from which 7 days in Entebbe was given the rating of Particularly Valuable , it says: “Despite the well-known ending, Brazilian director José Padilha managed to create a political thriller that was exciting right up to the last minute extensive research and discussions with contemporary witnesses. He talks calmly about the dramatic events and the fear of the passengers and crew members. The French pilots and flight engineers become heroes and popular figures. But the film also tells of the motivation of the Palestinians and the RAF members, as well as the motivations of the Israelis. [...] Padilha never takes sides in his film, which is made with excellent craftsmanship. He condenses the conflict to the core content and manages to turn what at first glance appears didactic construct into a powerful, lively overall work. "
Web links
- 7 days in Entebbe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 7 days in Entebbe in the German synchronous file
- 7 Days in Entebbe - Official website for the film by 20th Century Fox Germany
- 7 Days in Entebbe in the program of the Berlin International Film Festival (including video of the press conference)
- 7 Days in Entebbe - Official Trailer from Focus Features on Youtube (Video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 7 days in Entebbe . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 178365 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for 7 days in Entebbe . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The song recalls the liberation of the Israelites from slavery, see also Echad Mi Yodea (English).
- ↑ a b Christian Ihle: 7 Days in Entebbe In: taz.de, February 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b Laura Döing: Berlinale shows hostage drama “7 Days in Entebbe” In: Deutsche Welle Online, February 20, 2018.
- ↑ Peter Zander: "7 Days in Entebbe": dance interlude for the act of terror In: Berliner Morgenpost, February 20, 2018
- ↑ Echad Mi Yodea in: hebrewsongs.com
- ↑ Echad Mi Yodea by Ohad Naharin performed by Batsheva - the Young Ensemble on Youtube (video)
- ↑ "getting rid of the politics that prevents negotiations." Reporter's Notebook: 'Entebbe' film gives unsubtle nod to struggling peace talks . In: i24News, February 21, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b Sabine Horst: Review of 7 days in Entebbe. In: epd Film, 2018.
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: "7 days in Entebbe": Elite soldiers in dance. In: Zeit Online, April 30, 2018.
- ↑ a b Andreas Borcholte: Berlinale 2018: “7 Days in Entebbe” with Daniel Brühl, Rosamund Pike. In: Spiegel Online, February 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b Michael Müller: Of humanized German terrorists and forgotten Israeli victims. In: Pro Medienmagazin, May 2, 2018.
- ↑ a b Fabian Wallmeier: Film review : “7 Days in Entebbe” - Combat and art inappropriately linked In: rbb24.de, February 19, 2018.
- ^ The True Story Behind the Movie 7 Days in Entebbe. In: TIME.com from March 16, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018
- ↑ Rodrigo Amarante Scoring Jose Padilha's '7 Days in Entebbe' In: filmmusicreporter.com, December 7, 2017.
- ↑ '7 Days in Entebbe' Soundtrack Announced In: filmmusicreporter.com, March 30, 2018.
- ↑ Entebbe: Daniel Brühl plays a terrorist In: The Huffington Post, July 31, 2016.
- ↑ New film to be shot in Malta after original was banned 39 years ago. In: timesofmalta.com, September 8, 2016.
- ↑ Naman Ramachandran: José Padilha wraps Entebbe project. In: cineuropa.org, February 9, 2017.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press releases for the 68th Berlinale competition ( memento of the original from January 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: berlinale.de, January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Entebbe In: moviejones.de. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
- ↑ Reason for release for 7 days in Entebbe . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: Elite soldiers in dance . In: Die Zeit, April 30, 2018
- ↑ Christian Schröder: Throwing bombs into consciousness In: Der Tagesspiegel, February 20, 2018.
- ^ Jury statement 7 days in Entebbe In: fbw-filmbeval.com . German film and media rating. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
