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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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