The Assault (2011)
- Original title
- L'Assaut
- Directed by
- Julien Leclercq
- Genre
- action film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 275 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This film follows a group of passengers and flight crew on a hijacked plane in 1994. It shows the negotiation and eventual assault by a French counter-terrorism team to rescue them.
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What happens
The Assault (French: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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