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Munich is a 2005 epic historical drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. It is based on the 1984 book Vengeance by George Jonas , an account of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre .
Munich (2005): Jeanette the Dutch Assassin; The Girl from the Chartreuse (original title: La petite chartreuse) (2005): Pascale Blanchot; Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) (2006): Margot Beck; La mémoire des autres (2006): Constance; Les oiseaux du ciel (2006): Tango; Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007 ...
Almost a full year after Munich, Mossad believed they had finally located Salameh in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer. On July 21, 1973, in what would become known as the Lillehammer affair , a team of Mossad agents shot and killed Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter unrelated to the Munich attack and Black September, after an informant ...
Johann Georg Elser (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɛlzɐ] ⓘ; 4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich (known as the Bürgerbräukeller Bombing). Elser constructed and ...
This was a covert operation directed by Mossad to assassinate individuals involved in the 1972 Olympics Munich massacre. Raphael was part of a group of Mossad agents who murdered Morocco -born waiter Ahmed Bouchiki (brother of Chico Bouchikhi ) in Lillehammer , Norway , on 21 July 1973, in a case of mistaken identity that became known as the ...
The Assault (original title in Dutch: De aanslag) is a 1982 novel by Dutch author Harry Mulisch. Random House published an English translation by Claire Nicolas White in 1985. . It covers 35 years in the life of the lone survivor of a night in Haarlem during World War II when the Nazi occupation forces, finding a Dutch collaborator murdered, retaliate by killing most of the family in front of ...
As the story opens, the Jackal plans to continue working as an assassin until he has enough money to retire. The money paid him for assassinating two German engineers, thus delaying the development of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Al Zarifa rocket, had been enough to keep him in luxury for several years, but the offer of US$500,000 (about 5 million in 2024 dollars) from the OAS to kill de Gaulle gives ...
Netherland opens on protagonist Hans van den Broek, a Dutch financial analyst living in London with his English wife Rachel, but quickly flashes back to the years Hans spent in New York City before and in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. At the beginning of the novel, Hans is preparing to return to Manhattan for the funeral of estranged friend ...