Command Sinai

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Movie
Original title Command Sinai
Sinai Commandos
Country of production Germany , Israel , United States
original language German , Hebrew
Publishing year 1968
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 / free of public holidays
Rod
Director Raphael Nussbaum
script Jack Jacobs ,
Raphael Nussbaum
production Raphael Nussbaum,
Naftali Schönberg ,
Rudolf Weiser
music Rolf Bauer ,
Ron Etzel ,
Horst-Adolf Hass ,
Martin Blinder ,
Berry Lipman
camera Benno Bellenbaum ,
Ya'ackov Kallach
cut Ursula Möhrle ,
Erika Shtegman
occupation

Command Sinai (or: shadow over Tiran or Six Day War ) is a 1968 published Action - War of German - Israeli - American co-production. The film was produced by Aero Film GmbH from Berlin and Ran Film from Israel. It premiered in Israel on May 9, 1968. In Germany it was first shown in cinemas on June 21, 1968.

International performances

In the United States, the film was also called Sinai Commandos - The Story of the Six Day War . The Israeli title was Ha-Matarah Tiran ( Hebrew המטרה טיראן), in Denmark Commando Sinai , in Italy La guerra dei sei giorni , in Portugal Comandos do Sinai and in Greece To Suez stis floges .

Preliminary remark

The film takes place during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt , Jordan and Syria from June 5 to 10, 1967. The Arabs are also portrayed by Israelis. The film deals with the capture of the city of Sharm El Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula in the Six Day War.

The action takes place in the Sinai desert . Shortly before the start of the Israeli offensive , an Israeli commandos disrupted a radar station guarded by "dumb" Egyptians near the intended Israeli airstrike target.

action

Shortly before the outbreak of the Six Day War, the Israeli reserve officer Uri Littman was given the task of destroying an important, heavily fortified radar station on the Sinai Peninsula near Sharm El Sheikh as soon as the fighting began . He chooses seven reliable men he knows for this top secret commando. After that, the expedition to enemy territory can begin.

The girl Nira helps from Elath across the Red Sea to reach the point that is most suitable as a starting point for the march inland. Because she has to destroy her vehicle in order not to be attacked by enemy patrol boats , Nira joins the soldiers. Smuggling Bedouins hold up the troop. There is already a firefight on the way with an Egyptian patrol, then an Israeli pilot comes up to him with the order to bring the attack forward, and finally the time has come: The system is in front of the attackers, they storm the station and chase it - if even with heavy losses - in the air. The act of sabotage succeeded.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "The first cinema reaction to the Yom Kippur" Blitzkrieg "[...] in the form of a heroically unbelievable action film, which in some respects resembles the German Landser Groschenheften ." Also the Protestant film observer does not come to a better assessment: "This [...] color film not only brings low artistic yield, but also fizzles in the end, because it again degrades the deadly serious war events to an adventure of daring people."

Soundtrack

The song Sharm el-Sheikh , written by Ron Eliran , which describes the capture of Sharm El-Sheikh in the Six Day War, was recorded for the soundtrack by Rolf Bauer , Ron Etzel , Horst-Adolf Hass , Martin Blinder and Berry Lipman .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The lexicon of international films is wrong in dating: The Yom Kippur War did not take place until 1973.
  2. ↑ See en: Sharm el-Sheikh (song) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Movie poster
  2. ↑ a b Shadows over Tiran - Sinai Command . In: Filmlexikon auf Zweiausendeins.de .
  3. ^ Sinai Commandos: The Story Of The Six Day War (1968)… . In: Jack G. Shaheen: Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People , Interlink Publishing, 2012, p. 465.
  4. ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 16/1969, pp. 18-19.
  5. ↑ Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3249
  6. ↑ Ron Eliran: Sharm el-Sheikh , YouTube .