The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019 · 2h 10m · Drama, Thriller, History
This is a genuinely compelling true-story thriller with a meaningful historical mission at its core—the kind of high-stakes drama that makes for gripping cinema. The audacious premise (a fake diving resort as cover for a rescue operation) and the moral weight of the subject matter make this worth your time tonight, even without critical scores to back it up.
Plot
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
Director: Gideon Raff
Cast: Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michiel Huisman