The Assault (2011)
L'Assaut
Monday 26th December 1994. Marignane Airport.
December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.
- Date of release
- 2011-01-17
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (283)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Thriller
- Director
- Julien Leclercq
Casting
- Vincent Elbaz — Thierry
- Grégori Derangère — Denis Favier
- Mélanie Bernier — Carole
- Aymen Saïdi — Yahia
- Chems Dahmani — Mustapha
- Mohid Abid — Makhlouf
- Djanis Bouzyani — Salim
- Marie Guillard — Claire
- Naturel Le Ruyet — Emma
- Philippe Bas — GIGN Snipper Didier
- Philippe Cura — GIGN #1
- Grégoire Taulère — GIGN #2
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Marseille
The Assault is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994 hijacking of Air France Flight 8969 by Algerian Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie.
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