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Mogadischu (2008)
Directed by Roland Suso Richter
Overview
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader “Captain Martyr Mahmud” grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by “Captain Martyr Mahmud” (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
Length 108 minutes
Actors
Thomas Kretschmann | Nadja Uhl | Saïd Taghmaoui | Christian Berkel | Herbert Knaup | Judith Engel | Jürgen Tarrach | Franz Dinda | Fahri Yardım | Simon Verhoeven | Tobias Licht | Till Kretzschmar | Jan Messutat | Jan Henrik Stahlberg | Cornelia Schmaus | Youssef Hamid | Gernot Kunert | Bettina Hoppe | Sofi Mohamed | Martina Ysker | Mohcine Nadifi | Abdellatif Chaouqi | Valerie Niehaus | Korkmaz Arslan | Rita B-Lamotte | Denis Behnke | Fahd Benchamsi | Ralf Dittrich | Maximilian Fengler | Nabila Harfane | Irene Merzdorf | Michael Niekammer | Monika Reineck | Fabian Ridder | Fritz Roth | Sven Rothkirch | Gundi Anna Schick | Tim Unterstein | Holger Wiegandt | Alexander Yassin