Entebbe company
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Entebbe company |
| Original title | Victory at Entebbe |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marvin J. Chomsky |
| script | Ernest Kinoy |
| production | Robert Guenette |
| music | Charles Fox |
| camera | Jim Kilgore |
| cut |
Michael Gavaldon , Jim McElroy , David Saxon |
| occupation | |
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Enterprise Entebbe (Original title: Victory at Entebbe ) is an American television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky from 1976 . It deals with Operation Entebbe , a hostage rescue operation by the Israeli army that took place in the same year. It was broadcast as a world premiere on December 13, 1976 in the USA on the ABC network and then marketed internationally as a feature film and later on video and DVD.
Plot / background
The film describes Operation Entebbe , during which Israeli military units violently ended the week-long hostage-taking of the passengers and crew of Air France flight 139 on the night of July 4, 1976 at Entebbe airport in Uganda . Shortly after a stopover in Athens, the plane was on the way from Tel Aviv to Paris by Palestinian and German members of a PFLP-EO command and hijacked via Benghazi to Entebbe in Uganda. 102 hostages were rescued during the operation, three died. All seven hostage-takers present were killed.
criticism
“The rescue of Israeli hostages from the hand of terrorists at the Ugandan Entebbe airport in July 1976 as the subject of a lavishly staged action film, which mainly replaces political and psychological illuminations with familiar entertainment patterns. Not convincing in terms of documentary value either, it combines the glorification of the Israeli fighting spirit and the spirit of tolerance with accusatory references to the National Socialist persecution of the Jews. "
Attacks, protests and performance bans
Two members of the Revolutionary Cells , Gerd Albartus and Enno Schwall, deposited an incendiary bomb during the screening of the film in a cinema in Aachen on January 3, 1977 to protest against the film, which they accused of "racist agitation" in a letter of responsibility. However, due to a fault in the ignition mechanism, an explosion with property damage did not occur until the following day, when the police tried to defuse the bomb, which has meanwhile been discovered by a cleaner at the cinema. Albartus and Schwall had already been observed by plainclothes police entering the cinema, were arrested a little later and ultimately sentenced to between four and six years in prison. Originally, the terrorist group, to which Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann, who were killed in Entebbe, belonged, had planned attacks on cinemas in several cities with the aim of forcing the film to be discontinued. which, however, could be found and defused in good time. The film was screened under police protection in cinemas in Mainz and Münster, while plainclothes police took action against troublemakers in Berlin. In view of the threat, the film was actually canceled in numerous German cinemas.
In Rome , at the end of December 1976, there had been fire bombing attacks on three cinemas showing the film. There were similar attacks in Greece and South Africa. In Greece and Jamaica, the authorities imposed nationwide performance bans in January 1977, citing safety concerns. In Japan, on December 18, 1976, the ambassadors of six Arab states initially held a joint protest against the screening of the film, pointing out that Japan's relations with the Arab world were at risk. From December 25th, it ran for just one week in 68 cinemas before the Tokyo representative of Warner Brothers announced that the screenings would be suspended due to low audience numbers.
Web links
- Victory at Entebbe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entebbe company in the dictionary of international film
Individual evidence
- ↑ RZ: Arson attack against the screening of the Entebbe film (January 77) , documented in: ID archive in the International Institute for Social History (Ed.): Fruits of Wrath: Texts and materials on the history of the revolutionary cells and the Rote Zora. ID-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ( online version of the letter )
- ↑ Oliver Schröm: In the shadow of the jackal: Carlos and the trailblazers of international terrorism. Pp. 124-135 ( Google Books ), Ch. Links, Berlin 2002
- ↑ Magdalena Kopp : The Terror Years: My Life by the Side of Carlos. ( Google Books ), DVA, Munich 2007
- ↑ Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann: Kampfplatz Kino: Films as an Object of Political Violence in the Federal Republic (PDF), p. 177, In: Tel Aviver Yearbook for German History , 41, 2013, pp. 161–180
- ↑ Firebombs Hit Movie Theaters Showing Film on Entebbe Rescue, in: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 27, 1976, accessed July 22, 2014
- ↑ Alexander Sedlmaier and Freia Anders: "Entebbe Enterprise" 1976. Perspectives on an airplane hijacking, critical of sources. In: Yearbook for Research on Antisemitism. 22 (2013), pp. 267–290, here p. 271
- ^ South Africa: Fire which gutted Pretoria cinema showing “Victory at Entebbe” suspected as arson. ITN news agency report from January 25, 1977, accessed on August 22, 2016
- ↑ UPI : Theaters Halt 'Entebbe'. In: Desert Sun, January 4, 1977, accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ It Happened This Week In 1977 (January 9-15). In: The Gleaner of January 13, 2016
- ↑ 'Victory at Entebbe' Film Halted in Japan , in: New York Times, January 1, 1977, p. 6 (English)