I’m not saying they wouldn’t have stayed if they had the choice, but they weren’t asked.” Were the German terrorists reluctant to use violence?ĭespite carrying out a terrorist plot, Pike’s and Brühl’s characters are portrayed in a fairly sympathetic light in 7 Days in Entebbe, and at times their reluctance to use violence to control the hostages causes tension between them and their Palestinian counterparts. But in reality, they were never given the choice. “When they were rescued and got back to France, they were welcomed with open arms like they were national heroes and the story was always that they made the decision to stay. “The story of the crew has always been quite a controversial one,” says David. In reality, that wasn’t exactly how events unfolded. In the movie, the Air France crew is given the opportunity to leave the airport compound in Entebbe and return home, but they bravely decide to stay with the mainly Israeli hostages. “He was really symbolizing the complication of the whole Israeli-Palestinian issue as we would see it through modern eyes,” says David.ĭid the Air France crew choose to stay with the passengers? But the commando is meant to serve a purpose for audiences. Also invented for the story is his dancer girlfriend, whose dramatic routine is used as a slightly strange tension-building device throughout the movie. No, actor Ben Schnetzer’s character, an Israeli commando who feels conflicted about carrying out the potentially lethal raid, is fictional.
“It was very risky but she pulled it off,” he says.
THE TERMINAL BASED ON TRUE STORY SERIES
This series of events is true: British-born Patricia Martel, who emigrated to Israel, really did fake a pregnancy and miscarriage to get released by the hijackers.Īccording to David, Martel, who has since passed away, was on her way to her mother’s funeral and was prepared to risk her life in order to make it.
In 7 Days in Entebbe, a woman played by Andrea Deck pretends to be pregnant and having a miscarriage in order to get off the plane when it is diverted to Benghazi, Libya. It wasn’t about being Jewish - it was about being Israeli.” Did a woman fake a pregnancy to get off the plane? I interviewed a couple of them and they said many Jews were released. “That there were a very high number of French Jews who were released and not kept is fact. “It’s long been trotted out that there was a deliberate policy to separate the Jews from the non-Jews, but that was frankly not true,” he says.
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