| Title |
15 minutes of war. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Eagle Entertainment, ©2023. |
| Physical description |
1 DVD-video (95 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm |
| General note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Eagle Entertainment : EAG3521. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in France in 2019 under the title 'L'intervention'. |
| "A school bus with 21 children hijacked. 4 terrorist. 1 special unit" -- Back cover. |
| "The operation remained a secret for 40 years" -- Cover. |
| "An unbelievable true story" -- Cover. |
| Credits note |
Directed by Fred Grivois. |
| Performer note |
Alban Lenoir, Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Layne, Michaël Abiteboul, Sébastien Lalanne, David Murgia, Guillaume Labbé, Vincent Perez, Josiane Balasko. |
| Summary |
Based on the 1976 true story of the Somalian rebel hijacking of a school bus with 21 French children and an American teacher onboard. The rebels drive the bus to the border between the French colony and Somalia. French captain Andre Gerval is called to lead a small team of elite snipers to secretly prepare an emergency rescue. When diplomacy comes to a standstill and time is running out, Gerval and his team carry out a sniper attack to get the children and their teacher out safely. |
| Subject |
France. -- Gendarmerie nationale. -- Groupe d'intervention -- Drama |
| Terrorists -- Drama |
| Hijacking of buses -- Drama |
| Feature films -- France |
| Motion pictures, French |
| Foreign language films |
| Action and adventure films |
| Historical films |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Djibouti -- Drama |
| Additional author |
Grivois, Fred director, screenwriter. |
| Kurylenko, Olga, 1979- actor. |
| Layne, Kevin actor. |
| Abiteboul, Michaël actor. |
| Added title |
15 minutes of war (Motion picture : 2019) |
| L'intervention (Motion picture : 2023) |
