Kidon (2013)

Original title

כידון

Directed by

Emmanuel Naccache

Genre

comedy film

Country

Israel, France

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This spy action comedy follows the Israeli Mossad as they try to find out who killed a Hamas commander. The film pokes fun at the real-life secret operation and the people involved.

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What happens

Kidon (Hebrew: כידון) is a 2013 French-Israeli spy action comedy film about the Israeli Mossad's attempts to find out who killed Hamas senior military commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in 2010. In real life, Kidon is a secretive Mossad special operations killing unit. Kidon was written and directed by Emmanuel Naccache. The hotel scenes were filmed at a hotel in Eilat, Israel, standing in for the Dubai hotel where the actual killing took place. When the family of Al-Mabhouh learned that in one of the scenes his character drinks alcohol and submits to Israeli "temptress" Bar Refaeli, the family said it would sue to stop the film's distribution arguing that it hurt the Hamas commander's reputation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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