Berlin Film Review: ‘7 Days In Entebbe’

Jessica Kiang, Variety
Mon, 02/19/2018 - 2:30pm

The word “fascist” is bandied around a lot in José Padilha’s recreation of the 1976 hijacking of Air France flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris. Two of the hijackers are German revolutionaries, and they know that they’ll be seen as fascists on a par with Nazis, for holding a planeload of Jewish people at […]

Topics: josé padilha s air france tel aviv paris german nazis jewish

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