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Hostages (other)
Hostages are people seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party. Hostages or The Hostages may also refer to: Film * ''Hostages'' (1943 film), an American war film directed by Frank Tuttle * ''The Hostages'' (film), a 1975 British adventure film directed by David Eady * ''Hostages'' (1992 film), an American drama film directed by David Wheatley * ''Hostages'' (2017 film), a Georgian drama film directed by Rezo Gigineishvili Television * ''Hostages'' (Israeli TV series), a 2013 drama series, created by Rotem Shamir and Omri Givon ** ''Hostages'' (American TV series), American remake of the series ** ''Hostages'' (Indian TV series), Indian remake of the series * ''Hostages'' (2022 TV series), a 2022 documentary series about the 1979 Iranian revolution Other uses * ''Hostages'' (video game), a 1988 tactical shooter computer game * ''The Hostages'' (Laurens), an 1896 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens See also * Hostage (other) {{disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages
A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized, such as a relative, employer, law enforcement or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition'' (1910-1911) defines a hostage as "a person who is handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war." A party who seizes one or more hostages is known as a hostage-taker; if the hostages are present voluntarily, then the receiver is known as a host. In civil society, along with kidnapping for ransom and human trafficking (often willing to ransom its captives when lucrative or to trade on influence), hostage taking is a criminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (1943 Film)
''Hostages'' is an American war film produced by Paramount Pictures and released in 1943. It was directed by Frank Tuttle from a script by Frank Butler and Lester Cole based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Stefan Heym. The film stars Luise Rainer, Arturo de Córdova, William Bendix and Paul Lukas and features Katina Paxinou and Oskar Homolka. Plot A group of 26 Czechoslovakian citizens are jailed as hostages by the Gestapo until the supposed killer of a Nazi officer – who actually committed suicide – is turned in. The hostages include the leader of the underground resistance movement (William Bendix), whose cover is that of an apparently ignorant washroom attendant in the nightclub where the victim was last seen alive. Cast * Luise Rainer as Milada Pressinger * Arturo de Córdova as Paul Breda * William Bendix as Underground leader * Paul Lukas as Rheinhardt * Katina Paxinou as Maria * Oskar Homolka as Lev Pressinger * Reinhold Schünzel as Kurt Dalueg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hostages (film)
''The Hostages'' is a 1975 British children's adventure film directed by David Eady and starring Stephen Garlick, Jayne Collins, Peter Marshall, Julian Holloway and Robin Askwith. It was produced for the Children's Film Foundation. Plot Escaped convicts Joe Blake and Terry Sladden break into a remote farmhouse while the owners are away, and kidnap three children as hostages. Cast * Stephen Garlick as Peter *Jayne Collins as Kate *Peter Marshall as Tim *Lucinda Gorell-Barnes as Helen *Ray Barrett as Joe Blake *Robin Askwith as Terry Sladden *Jeremy Bulloch as policeman Critical reception ''Monthly Film Bulletin ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with ...'' said "Another extremely well-made children's thriller for the Children's Film Foundation which packs a good d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (1992 Film)
''Hostages'' is a 1992 American drama film directed by David Wheatley and written by Bernard MacLaverty. The film stars Kathy Bates, Colin Firth, Ciarán Hinds, Natasha Richardson, Jay O. Sanders, Josef Sommer and Harry Dean Stanton. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on ITV on September 23, 1992, and in the United States on HBO on February 20, 1993. Plot This film is a dramatization of the Beirut hostage crisis. After several real-life news clips highlight the situation in Beirut, including footage of bombings and attacks in the Lebanese capital along with the hijacking of TWA flight 847, the film opens with reporter John McCarthy finishing a story on Brian Keenan, an Irish lecturer who was kidnapped in Beirut days earlier. The following day, en route to Beirut Airport, McCarthy's car is surrounded and when identified as a British national, he is thrown back into the car which is commandeered by the kidnappers. He is brought to an apartment before being handed of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (2017 Film)
''Hostages'' is a 2017 drama film directed and written by Rezo Gigineishvili and co-written by Lasha Bugadze. It was screened in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film is based on true story and tells about group of Georgian youngster who try to escape the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane in 1983. Plot During the early 80's in the Soviet Georgia, just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of young people from respected Georgian families were looking to escape the Soviet Union. The Beatles's music, jeans, American cigarettes, position in society, guaranteed future. They seemed to have everything except one thing — freedom. Unfortunately, The price of their freedom was their own demise. A true story based on the events of 1983, when six guys and one girl tried to hijack a plane in order to escape from the USSR. Cast *Merab Ninidze (Levan) *Darejan Kharshiladze (Nino) *Tinatin Dalakishvili (Anna) *Avtandil Makhara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (Israeli TV Series)
''Hostages'' ( he, בני ערובה, Bnei Aruba) is an Israeli drama television series that was first broadcast on Channel 10 in October 2013. The series was created by Rotem Shamir and Omri Givon and produced by Chaim Sharir. The series originally aired on Channel 10 in Israel and has subsequently been broadcast or adapted in several other countries. Synopsis Four masked men break into the Danon family home and take the family hostage. The intruders demand that Yael (Ayelet Zurer), the family matriarch and a brilliant surgeon, kill the prime minister in what is meant to be a routine surgery. The operation is scheduled for the following day. If the prime minister does not die during the surgery, Yael's family will be killed. Cast * Jonah Lotan as Adam Rubin (season 1 - 2) *Ayelet Zurer as Dr. Yael Danon (season 1) * Tomer Kapon as Guy (season 1 - 2) * Dar Zuzovsky as Noa Danon (season 1) *Reymonde Amsallem as Orna (season 2) *Alona Tal as Zohar (season 2) *Itay Tiran as Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (American TV Series)
''Hostages'' is an American drama television series that aired on CBS as part of the 2013–14 American television season. Developed for American television by Alon Aranya and Jeffrey Nachmanoff, it is based on the Israeli series of the same name created by Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir and produced by Chaim Sharir, which premiered on October 13, 2013, almost three weeks after the American version's premiere. Jeffrey Nachmanoff wrote and directed the pilot episode for the American version. The series premiered on September 23, 2013 and ended on January 6, 2014. On May 10, 2014, CBS cancelled the series after one season. Plot The family of a doctor is taken hostage by a team led by a rogue FBI agent the night before she is scheduled to perform surgery on the President of the United States. She is ordered by the kidnappers to assassinate the President during surgery in order to save her family. Cast Main * Toni Collette as Dr. Ellen Sanders, a well respected thoracic surgeon at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (Indian TV Series)
''Hostages'' is an Indian Hindi-language crime thriller web series for Hotstar Specials, which is an official remake of an Israeli series of the same name. Written by Nisarg Mehta, Shiva Bajpai and Mayukh Ghosh, the series is directed by Sudhir Mishra. Starring Tisca Chopra, Ronit Roy, Parvin Dabas, Aashim Gulati, Mohan Kapoor, Dalip Tahil, with Malhaar Rathod, Sharad Joshi, Aashim Gulati, Surya Sharma and Anangsha Biswas in supporting roles. The series is about a renowned surgeon who is scheduled for a routine operation on the chief minister was ordered to assassinate him in the process, in order to save family being captivated. Sameer Nair of Applause Entertainment brought the rights for the adaptation in April 2018, followed by the principal shooting which started in May 2018 and completed in March 2019. Marked as Sudhir Mishra's digital debut, the series was eventually premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 31 May 2019. The series received mixed response, and although the writing w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (2022 TV Series)
''Hostages'' is a HBO documentary series directed by Joshua Bennett, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, Abbas Motlagh and Sam Pollard. The series was released worldwide on 28 September 2022 by HBO Max. Synopsis The four-part series explores events of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis, examining other dimensions of the crisis, like the U.S. role in the Middle East politics during the 70's, and its impact on 1980 U.S. presidential elections, as well as the aftermath of the Iranian revolution. Some footage used in the series were never seen before. Cast The series consists of footage from Iranian revolutionaries, hostage-takers and other Islamic Republic officials, as well as interviews with involved people like Mohsen Sazegara, Abolhassan Banisadr, Masoumeh Ebtekar, and some of the hostages including Michael J. Metrinko, John W. Limbert, and Victor L. Tomseth Victor L. Tomseth (born April 14, 1941) is a former American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hostages (video Game)
''Hostages'' is a tactical shooter video game developed and published by Infogrames. It was released for the Acorn Electron, Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, NES, and ZX Spectrum platforms in 1988. The game was released as ''Hostage: Rescue Mission'' in the United States and ''Operation Jupiter'' in France; the NES port is titled ''Rescue: The Embassy Mission''. Plot A terrorist group have overrun an embassy in Paris. The player takes control of a six-man GIGN team on a mission to free the hostages. Gameplay The game is split into two or three (depending on platform) distinct sections: #In the first part of the game, the player must bring three men into position so they can snipe the building. While doing so, the men must avoid the searchlights by diving for cover in doorways, windows and behind fences as well as rolling, crawling and running. If the player is caught in a searchlight, the sniper is shot at and risks being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hostages (Laurens)
''The Hostages'' is an 1896 oil on canvas painting created by French painter and sculptor Jean-Paul Laurens, the last in a series of historical works by him. He does not give a specific historical setting, although he evokes the Princes in the Tower and Richard III of England Richard III (2 October 145222 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat and death at the Battl .... It is now collected in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hostages, The 1896 paintings Paintings by Jean-Paul Laurens Paintings of children Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Princes in the Tower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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