The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019
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Adventures in the Red Sea: Directed by Hans Hass. With Hans Hass, Lotte Hass, Alfons Hochhauser, Leo Rohrer. Excellent documentary film about diving to the bottom of the Red Sea.
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- Documentary
- Hans Hass
- 1951-09-21
After the war he wanted to make bigger expeditions and he dreamed of diving with his camera in the Red Sea, which was notorious for its amount of sharks, but also famous for its variety of any creatures.
- 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...
Adventures in the Red Sea (1951) - full transcript. Excellent documentary film about diving to the bottom of the Red Sea.
1951. 1h 7m. Approved. Documentary. Cast. Hans Hass Lotte Hass Alfons Hochhauser Leo Rohrer Les Tremayne (Narrator) Eduard Wawrowetz Gerald Weidler. Director. Hans Hass. Synopsis. Excellent...
Post-war, he enjoyed huge commercial and artistic success with the documentary Adventures in the Red Sea (1951), winning first prize at the Venice Film Festival. Hass subsequently introduced the underwater realm to TV audiences with Diving to Adventure (1956), a series dubbed simultaneously into English and German. Sharks and barracudas were ...
Jul 29, 2019 · The astonishing story of a real-life rescue mission of Ethiopian Jews by Israeli Mossad agents, this liberally fictionalized Netflix thriller plays the “white...
