''The Assault'' (french: L'Assaut) is a 2010 French

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film directed by Julien Leclercq, based on the 1994

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Air France Flight 8969 Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. The terrorists murdered three passengers and their intention was either t ...

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s and the raid to free the hostages by the

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, the elite

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unit of the French National Gendarmerie.

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 Pari ...

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 Denis Favier (born May 18, 1959) is a French officer known for commanding the mission to remove hijackers from Air France Flight 8969. From 2013 to 2016, he has been the Chief of staff, General-Director of the French Gendarmerie. Favier was bo ...

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 as Mustapha * Djanis Bouzyani as Salim *

Marie Guillard Marie Guillard (born 20 June 1972) is a French actress. She was born in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Personal life She was married to Nicola Sirkis from July 1995 until November 1998. Presently she is married to Samy Naceri. Filmog ...

as Claire Prungnaud * Naturel Le Ruyet as Emma * Philippe Bas as Didier *

Antoine Basler Antoine Basler is a Swiss actor. He has appeared in more than sixty films since 1983. Selected filmography References External links * Living people People from Lausanne Swiss male film actors Swiss male television actors 20th ...

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 Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker, 13 February 1863, died 30 July 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden. Biograp ...

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 Claire Chazal () (born 1 December 1956) is a French journalist, romance writer, and former director of news at a national television station, France 2. She had been the weekend news anchor at TF1 beginning in 1991, and gave her final broadcast at ...

as News presenter

Reception

, review aggregation website

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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".

References

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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