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15 Minutes of War
Film poster
FrenchL'intervention
Directed byFred Grivois
Written byFred Grivois
Ileana Epsztajn
Jérémie Guez
Produced byHenri Debeurme
Raphaël Rocher
StarringAlban Lenoir
Olga Kurylenko
Kevin Layne
Michaël Abiteboul
Sébastien Lalanne
David Murgia
Guillaume Labbé
Vincent Perez
Josiane Balasko
CinematographyJulien Meurice
Edited byBaxter
Music byFabien & Mike Kourtzer
Production
companies
Capture the Flag Films
Empreinte Cinema
Agora Films
Distributed bySND Groupe M6
Release date
  • 30 January 2019 (2019-01-30) (France)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
LanguagesFrench
English
Budget$6.2 million[1]
Box office$455,000[2]

15 Minutes of War (French: L'intervention, lit.'The Intervention') is a 2019 French-Belgian war film directed by Fred Grivois.[3][4] It is freely based on real events known as the Prise d'otages de Loyada [fr].[5]

Plot

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In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot, where after 30 hours of tension a rescue operation is organized.

Cast

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Production

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Principal photography on the film was conducted during the summer of 2017.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "L'Intervention (2019)". JPBox-Office (in French). Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  2. ^ "15 Minutes of War". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  3. ^ "15 minutes de guerre (2017)". www.unifrance.org (in French). Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  4. ^ "L'Intervention" (in French). AlloCiné. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  5. ^ "1976 Loyada Hostage Rescue Mission". French Foreign Legion Information. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  6. ^ "'15 Minutes de guerre' de Fred Grivois en plein tournage au Maroc". Aujourd'hui Le Maroc (in French). 16 August 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
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