The Siege of Jadotville (film)
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The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 action-war film directed by Richie Smyth[2] and written by Kevin Brodbin. An Irish-South African production, the film is based on Declan Power's book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005), about an Irish Army unit's role in the titular Siege of Jadotville during the United Nations Operation in the Congo in September 1961,[3] part of the Congo Crisis that stretched from 1960 to 1965.
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Directed by | Richie Smyth |
Written by | Kevin Brodbin |
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Cinematography | Nikolaus Summerer |
Edited by | Alex Mackie |
Music by | Joseph Trapanese |
Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Countries | Ireland South Africa |
Language | English[1] |
First screened at the 2016 Galway Film Festival,[4] the film received a limited cinema distribution in Ireland in September 2016.[5] It had simultaneous worldwide distribution on Netflix and in a number of US iPic Theaters during October 2016.[6][7] It won three Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Director.