Mbulelo Grootboom
Ethiopian Rebel Commander
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Undercover agents open up a fake hotel to real tourists as a cover to help smuggle thousands of Ethiopian refugees to safety. Inspired by true events. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 130 min
- Why Were Ethiopian Jews Fleeing Their Home country?
- Why Were Israeli Agents Involved in Refugee Rescue Operations?
- Did An Escape Mission Really Happen at A Hotel in Sudan?
- Was The Mission Successful?
The history of Ethiopian Jews is a long and complex one, with many academics unsure of exactly when and how a Jewish population came to be in Ethiopia. While some of their customs are distinct from Hebrew traditions, the community, historically known as Beta Israel, has become a largely accepted part of mainstream Judaism. “It’s a bit shrouded in m...
In The Red Sea Diving Resort, Evans’ character Ari Levinson hatches a bold plan: to renovate an abandoned Italian hotel on the coast of Sudan, eight hours’ drive from the capital of Khartoum, and use it as a cover to smuggle Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps to Israel via boat. Israeli officers initially react with skepticism at the proposal, but d...
In 1981, Mossad agents scouted the Sudanese coastline and found 15 beachside villas that had been abandoned a decade earlier. Nestled on the shorelines of the Red Sea and boasting picturesque coral reefs, the resort provided a front for agents to covertly transport Beta Israel refugees to boats that would carry them to Israel. As depicted in the fi...
As depicted in the film, the mission spanned years and resulted in the relocation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Jerusalem, while agents kept up appearances maintaining and managing the hotel. According to Abbink, around 8,000 Beta Israel individuals escaped to Israel via Sudan with the help of the Israeli resort staff, which made it the largest...
- 3 min
- Suyin Haynes
Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT is the incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians w...
- 3 min
- 4.9M
- Netflix
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The Red Sea Diving Resort (also known as Operation Brothers) is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Gideon Raff. The film stars Chris Evans as an Israeli Mossad agent who runs a covert operation to rescue Ethiopian-Jewish refugees from Sudan to safe haven in Israel.
Jul 31, 2019 · The Red Sea Diving Resort: Directed by Gideon Raff. With Mbulelo Grootboom, Sizo Mahlangu, Michael Kenneth Williams, Masasa Mbangeni. Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1979.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Gideon Raff
- 2019-07-31
Jul 31, 2019 · Gideon Raff’s “The Red Sea Diving Resort,” unceremoniously dumped on Netflix today, does none of these things. It turns real heroes into generic tropes and real victims into manipulative props.
Jul 31, 2019 · The Red Sea Diving Resort is now streaming on Netflix, telling the remarkable true story of the Israeli effort to rescue Jewish Ethiopian refugees from the civil war devastating their country and bring them to Israel, but how much of the tale has been changed for the movie?
