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Incredibly intense and meticulously researched, The Assault a vividly realistic portrayal of the true-life events that gripped a TV audience of over 21 million viewers on Saturday December 24th 1994.

It's Christmas Eve 1994. A flight from Algiers bound for Paris is hijacked and 227 passengers are taken hostage by a militant group of heavily armed Islamic terrorists. The authorities' only hope of saving the passengers is to enlist the GIGN, an elite special-forces unit. But it's a deadly mission of survival that will escalate into a violent confrontation that's both brutal and moving.

Directed by Julien Leclerq, The Assault stars Vincent Elbaz, Gregori Derangere, Melanie Bernier, Aymen Saidi and Marie Guillard.

• Actors Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas, Aymen Saïdi, Marie Guillard, Antoine Basler, Fatima Adoum, Hugo Becker, Hugues Martel, Hervé Dubourjal, François Lescurat, Abdelhafid Metalsi & Jean-Philippe Puymartin
• Director Julien Leclercq
• Certificate 15 years and over
• Year 2010