The Siege of Jadotville (film)

This article is about the 2016 movie. For the event on which the movie is based, see Siege of Jadotville.

The Siege of Jadotville
Netflix release poster
Directed byRichie Smyth
Written byKevin Brodbin
Produced by
  • Kevin Brodbin
  • Alan Moloney
  • Ruth Coady
  • Johanna Hogan
  • Justin Moore-Lewy
Starring
CinematographyNikolaus Summerer
Edited byAlex Mackie
Music byJoseph Trapanese
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • 10 July 2016 (2016-07-10) (Galway Film Festival)
  • 19 September 2016 (2016-09-19) (Ireland)
  • 7 October 2016 (2016-10-07) (Worldwide)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesIreland
South Africa
LanguageEnglish[1]

The Siege of Jadotville is a 2016 action-war film directed by Richie Smyth[2] and written by Kevin Brodbin. An Irish-South African production, the film is based on Declan Power's book, The Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle (2005), about an Irish Army unit's role in the titular Siege of Jadotville during the United Nations Operation in the Congo in September 1961,[3] part of the Congo Crisis that stretched from 1960 to 1965.

First screened at the 2016 Galway Film Festival,[4] the film received a limited cinema distribution in Ireland in September 2016.[5] It had simultaneous worldwide distribution on Netflix and in a number of US iPic Theaters during October 2016.[6][7] It won three Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Director.

  1. ^ "THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE". British Board of Film Classification.
  2. ^ "The Siege of Jadotville (2016)". IMDb. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  3. ^ "28th Galway Film Fleadh - July 2016 - The Siege of Jadotville". Galwayfilmfleadh.com. Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Jamie Dornan's latest film wins standing ovation at Galway Film Fleadh". Irish Independent. 11 July 2016.
  5. ^ "'The Siege of Jadotville' to receive limited cinema release". Irish Times. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  6. ^ "First trailer of Siege of Jadotville is nail-biting". RTÉ. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  7. ^ "National Association of Theatre Owners Chief Sounds Alarm Over Netflix Deal With iPic". Variety. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016. [..] iPic [..has..] a theatrical foothold on 15 U.S. locations. That will be particularly important for Netflix films that need some kind of theatrical run to qualify for awards. IPic will release the war thriller "The Siege of Jadotville," starring Jamie Dornan ("Fifty Shades of Grey"), on Oct. 7