The Siege of Jadotville

2016

  • Release: 2016 ( 07 Oct 2016 )
  • Genre: ✯ Action ✯ Biography ✯ Drama ✯ Thriller ✯ War
  • Language: English, Irish, French
  • Country: Ireland, South Africa
  • Runtime: 108 mins
  • Rating: 7
  • Quality: ✯ 1080P WebRip ✯ 720P WebRip
    * WebRip: same quality as BluRay, but ripped earlier from a streaming service

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Plot summary

In 1961, the UN sends an Irish peacekeeper troop commanded by Commandant Pat Quinlan to Katanga, in Congo, to protect the inhabitants of the mining town of Jadotville in the beginning of a civil war. Meanwhile the UN advisor Dr. Conor Cruise O’Brien launches a military attack named Operation Morthor against the French and Belgian mercenaries. Soon there is a reprisal from the mercenaries and Quinlan and his men are left under siege by a huge number of Katangese and mercenary troops. Will the Irish soldiers resist the attack?

Director : Richie Smyth
Writer :

Kevin Brodbin, Declan Power (based on the book by)


Actors : Richard Lukunku| Danny Sapani| Andrew Stock| Mark Strong|