''The Assault'' (french: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994

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n Islamic fundamentalist

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s and the raid to free the hostages by the

GIGN The GIGN ( ; ) is the elite police tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie of France. Among its missions are counterterrorism, hostage rescue, surveillance of national threats, protection of government officials, critical site protection (suc ...

, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the

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Cast

Vincent Elbaz Vincent Elbaz (born 3 February 1971) is a French actor. He has appeared in many French television shows and films. His first major role was in the 1994 film '' Le péril jeune''. Elbaz received the 1998 Jean Gabin Prize. Elbaz was born in Paris ...

as Thierry Prungnaud *

Grégori Derangère Grégori Derangère (born 27 March 1971) is a French actor. Career Derangère was born in Montpellier where his parents finished their medicine studies. He moved to Moscow and French Guiana during his childhood and then to Paris. He studi ...

as Commander Denis Favier *

Mélanie Bernier Mélanie Bernier (born 5 January 1985) is a French actress. She has appeared in several films, such as '' L'Assaut'' (2011), directed by Julien Leclerq, relating the hijacking of an Air France A300 in December 1994, and also in several televisi ...

as Carole Jeanton * as Yahia *

Chems Dahmani Chems Dahmani (born 16 June 1986) is a French actor. Filmography * 2011: ''The Assault'' * 2010: ''From Paris with Love (film)'' * 2008: ''Des Poupées et Des Anges'' Directed by Nora Hamdi * 2008: ''Frontier(s)'' Directed by Xavier Gens * 2 ...

as Mustapha * Djanis Bouzyani as Salim * Marie Guillard as Claire Prungnaud * Naturel Le Ruyet as Emma *

Philippe Bas Philippe Bas (born 20 July 1958) is a French politician, member of the French Senate representing the department of Manche Manche (, ) is a coastal French département in Normandy, on the English Channel, which is known as ''La Manche'', ...

as Didier * Antoine Basler as Solignac * as Roland Môntins * Mohid Abid as Makhlouf *

Fatima Adoum Fatima Adoum is a French actress based in London and Paris. Biography She studied language sciences, performing arts and holds a PhD in Cinema – at La Sorbonne, Paris 1. Filmography Cinema * 2002: ''Irréversible'' de Gaspar Noé * 20 ...

as Djida * Hugo Becker as Vincent Leroy *

Abdelhafid Metalsi Abdelhafid Metalsi (born 1969) is an Arabic actor, of Kabyle descent and Algerian ethnicity, who lives in France and was naturalized as French. He is best known for his starring role as the dedicated ''Police captain, Capitaine'' Kader Chérif in t ...

as Ali Touchent * Claire Chazal as News presenter

Reception

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reported an approval rating of 53%, based on 145 reviews, with an average score of 5.86/10. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 55, based on 7 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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* 2010 films 2010 action thriller films 2010s French-language films Action films based on actual events Air France–KLM Films about aircraft hijackings Films about jihadism Films about terrorism in Africa Films directed by Julien Leclercq Films set in 1994 Films set in Algiers French films based on actual events French action thriller films GIGN Thriller films based on actual events 2010s French films {{2010s-France-film-stub