The Death of Klinghoffer

Year: 2003

Runtime: 120 mins

Language: English

Director: Penny Woolcock

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Adapted from John Adams’ opera, the film dramatizes the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking. While on a Mediterranean cruise, a maid discovers four PLO members who seize hostages and demand the release of prisoners. The standoff involves regional officials and ends with the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair‑bound Jewish‑American passenger.

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