Raid on Entebbe (film)
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| Directed by | Irvin Kershner |
| Produced by | Daniel H. Blatt Edgar J. Scherick |
| Written by | Barry Beckerman |
| Starring | Peter Finch Charles Bronson Yaphet Kotto |
| Music by | David Shire |
| Cinematography | Bill Butler |
| Distributed by | NBC |
| Release date(s) | 9 January 1977 |
| Running time | 150 min. |
| Language | English |
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Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 TV movie directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda on July 4, 1976. It was the last movie to be released featuring Academy Award-winning actor Peter Finch.
The movie was released shortly after a more hastily released version came out - "Victory on Entebbee" (1976).
This version of Operation Entebbe is believed to be fairly accurate, although some details of the actual raid remain unclear and somewhat controversial even today. The basic facts of the rescue of hostages held when highjackers working for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine boarded and hijacked an Air France plane recounts the events and response of the Israeli government and the controversy that the rescue stirred.
This version shows the difficult Israel Cabinet deliberations held to decide on a top-secret military raid on the Jewish Sabbath by commandos; a difficult and daring operation carried out over 2500 miles from home, and of course, an unwillingness of the Jewish government to give in to terrorist demands. One commando was killed (the operation commander Jonathan Netanyahu, brother of Prime Minister in waiting Benjamin Netanyahu), a very small number of hostages, and soldiers under the then dictator of Uganda, Idi Amin.
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