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Description
Sabena Hijacking – My Version is a powerful, suspenseful docu-drama based on previously undiscovered audio recordings of the pilot of Flight 571, the passenger plane hijacked by four "Black September” members of the Palestine Liberation Organization on its way from Brussels to Tel Aviv on 8 May 1972.
By channeling Captain Reginald Levy’s impartial view of these exceptional events, this film finally shares the untold story of what exactly took place on the flight throughout the thirty hours of nerve-racking captivity.
Sabena Hijacking – My Version fuses archive material and dramatic reenactments of the tense scenes inside the aircraft as Captain Levy was held at gunpoint with candid interviews with those in charge of the Israeli rescue efforts – previous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peresas – as well as the only surviving hijacker, Therese Halsa, who was just eighteen at the time.
The result is a captivating, fast-paced film full of suspense, which poses significant political and historical questions that are not only still important but have shaped the Israel of today.