The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

Directed by

Richie Smyth

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Ireland

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 947 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1961, a small Irish peacekeeping force is surrounded by a much larger and better equipped army during a United Nations mission in the Congo. The soldiers must hold their position against overwhelming odds while awaiting rescue.

tenseclaustrophobicgrittysuspensefulmilitary-focusedhistoricalunderdogearnest

What happens

The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 action-war film directed by Richie Smyth and written by Kevin Brodbin. An Irish-South African production, the film is based on Declan Power's book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005), about an Irish Army unit's role in the titular Siege of Jadotville during the United Nations Operation in the Congo in September 1961, part of the Congo Crisis that stretched from 1960 to 1965. First screened at the 2016 Galway Film Festival, the film received a limited cinema distribution in Ireland in September 2016. It had simultaneous worldwide distribution on Netflix and in a number of US iPic Theaters during October 2016. It won three Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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