The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)

Directed by

Gideon Raff

Genre

historical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 866 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Israeli Mossad agents set up a fake resort on the Sudanese coast as a cover to smuggle Ethiopian-Jewish refugees to Israel. They work under constant threat of discovery while carrying out the rescue missions.

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What happens

The Red Sea Diving Resort (also known as Operation Brothers) is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Gideon Raff. The film stars Chris Evans as an Israeli Mossad agent who runs a covert operation to rescue Ethiopian-Jewish refugees from Sudan to safe haven in Israel. Michael K. Williams, Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman, Chris Chalk, Greg Kinnear, and Ben Kingsley are in supporting roles. The film is loosely based on the events of Israel's Operation Moses and Operation Joshua in 1984-1985, in which the Mossad covertly rescued Jewish-Ethiopian refugees who suffered from persecutions in Sudan in Africa, by smuggling them all the way to the safety of Israel, using a base at the once-abandoned holiday resort of Arous Village on the Sudanese Red Sea coast, about 70km (43 miles) north of Port Sudan. The Red Sea Diving Resort premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 28, 2019, and was released on July 31, 2019, by Netflix. Critical reaction to the film was predominantly negative, while audiences were mixed to positive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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