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Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
Directed by Menahem Golan
Action, Drama, Thriller · 2h 04m
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.
Cast
Yehoram Gaon
Col. Yonatan Netanyahu
Gila Almagor
Nurit Aviv
Klaus Kinski
Wilfried Boese
Assi Dayan
Shuki
Shmuel Rodensky
Familienoberhaupt
Rolf Eden
Air France Co-Pilot
Sybil Danning
Halima
Arik Lavie
Gen. Dan Shomron
Shaike Ophir
Gadi Arnon
Reuven Bar-Yotam
Avraham Ben-David
Gabi Amrani
Gavriel, a passeenger
M
Mark Heath
Idi Amin Dada
Crew
- Director
- Menahem Golan
- Writer
- Ken Globus, Menahem Golan
- Director of Photography
- Adam Greenberg
- Original Music Composer
- Dov Seltzer
- Editor
- Dov Hoenig
- Producer
- Menahem Golan, Sybil Danning, Yoram Globus
Details
- Original title
- מבצע יונתן
- Release date
- 1977-06-06
- Runtime
- 2h 04m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- HE
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Spanish
- Countries
- Israel
- Production
- Cinema Shares International Distribution, Golan-Globus Productions