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15 MINUTES OF WAR

L'INTERVENTION

By Fred GRIVOIS

EMPREINTE DIGITALE / EMPREINTE CINEMA - as PROD

True Story - Completed 2017

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- True Story, Action/Adventure, Second film
- Countries
- FRANCE, BELGIUM
- Languages
- FRENCH, ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Fred GRIVOIS
- Cast
- Alban LENOIR, Olga KURYLENKO, Vincent PEREZ, Josiane BALASKO
- Producer(s)
- Raphaël ROCHER (EMPREINTE DIGITALE / EMPREINTE CINEMA), Henri DEBEURME (EMPREINTE DIGITALE / EMPREINTE CINEMA), Jacques-Henri BRONCKART (VERSUS PRODUCTION)
- Synopsis
- On February 1976, Somalian terrorists hijack a bus carrying French children in Djibouti City and drive it to the small town of Loyada, the official border crossing from Djibouti into Somalia. France sent a special operations unit of the French National Gendarmerie. The hostages will be rescued under covering fire from Somali border troops. And the unit will become one of France’s premier counterterror special forces, the GIGN.