Director Jose Padilha (Elite Squad / the Robocop reboot) assembles the drama with precision, beginning with the motivations of
German hijackers Wilfried Bose (Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike).
Filling a role previously played by the likes of Helmut Berger and Klaus Kinski, Daniel Brühl stars as Wilfried Böse, one of
the German hijackers; Rosamund Pike plays his partner, Brigitte Kuhlmann.
The screenplay by Gregory Burke is most interested in the two
German hijackers, played by Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl.
Only well into the operation does it occur to them that the optics of
German hijackers threatening Jewish hostages is very bad indeed.
The film focuses alternately on the tensions in the Israeli government over how to deal with the crisis, and the conflict between the two
German hijackers who start to question their commitment to a cause they have no real stake in.
Not exact matches
Police raided the mosque on Monday and hunted for evidence of jihadist activities
German police have shut down the Hamburg mosque where the 9/11
hijackers met before their suicide attacks on the US in 2001.
The principal storyline concerns the
hijackers, specifically
German revolutionaries Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike) and Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl), as their hostage situation becomes more and more untenable.
Two of the
hijackers are
German revolutionaries, and they know that they'll be seen as fascists on a par with Nazis, for holding a planeload of Jewish people at -LSB-...]
Palestinian
hijackers, aided by two
German members of a far - left terrorist group.
Two of the
hijackers are
German revolutionaries, and they know that they'll be seen as fascists on a par with Nazis, for holding a planeload of Jewish people at gunpoint.
Unlike previous tellings of this story, «7 Days in Entebbe» focuses on the
hijackers: specifically
Germans Wilfried Bose (a quietly intense Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (a jittery, de-glammed Rosamund Pike), who have teamed up with members of a pro-Palestinian group to plot and pull off this mid-air attack on Israel.
Padilha will examine the story from multiple points of view — the
German and Palestinian
hijackers, the Israeli (and other nationalities) hostages, as well as Israeli officials like Peres and Rabin.
It's the 1976 true story, when four
hijackers — two Palestinian, two
German — took a plane hostage and diverted it to land in Entebbe, Uganda, while they demanded the release of dozens of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian prisoners.
On June 27, 1976, four
hijackers — two West
German, two Palestinian — seized control of an Air France plane flying from Athens to Paris.
The lead characters in «7 Days...» are actually the
German radical terrorist
hijackers, Wilfried Bose and Brigitte Kuhlmann.