The Assault Blu-ray
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play.
Incredibly intense and meticulously researched, The Assault a vividly realistic portrayal of the true-life events that gripped a TV audience of over 21 million viewers on Saturday December 24th 1994.
It's Christmas Eve 1994. A flight from Algiers bound for Paris is hijacked and 227 passengers are taken hostage by a militant group of heavily armed Islamic terrorists. The authorities' only hope of saving the passengers is to enlist the GIGN, an elite special-forces unit. But it's a deadly mission of survival that will escalate into a violent confrontation that's both brutal and moving.
Directed by Julien Leclerq, The Assault stars Vincent Elbaz, Gregori Derangere, Melanie Bernier, Aymen Saidi and Marie Guillard.
- Actors Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas, Aymen Saïdi, Marie Guillard, Antoine Basler, Fatima Adoum, Hugo Becker, Hugues Martel, Hervé Dubourjal, François Lescurat, Abdelhafid Metalsi & Jean-Philippe Puymartin
- Director Julien Leclercq
- Certificate 15 years and over
- Year 2010