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Hostage Takers (2023)

Documentary | 86 minutes
3,47 16 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 86 minuten

Alternative title: The Hostage Takers

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Puk Damsgaard Andersen and Søren Klovborg

IMDb score: 7,3 (89)

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Hostage Takers plot

Journalist Sean Langan confronts two of the British IS members known as 'The Beatles'. They were the brutal guards of many hostages, including the eventually beheaded war correspondent James Foley, a close friend of Langan. Also with interviews with other people directly involved.

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War journalist Sean Langan has seen the horrors of recent wars with his own eyes and personally knew James Foley, the American journalist whose beheading by ISIS sent shockwaves around the world. Foley was part of a group of hostage journalists who were guarded and tortured by four English-speaking men. Daniel Rye Ottosen, who survived the hostage-taking, talks about what he experienced during that time and explains why he and his colleagues called their captors 'The Beatles'. However, he also managed to gain access to the prison where two of the kidnappers are held. In an exciting conversation in which Langan struggles with his personal emotions (he is not an interviewer), he tries to gain insight into the motivations of these British-born IS fighters. Just when the conversation takes an interesting turn, Langan loses his temper and it ends in a confrontation that leaves no one the wiser. A fascinating, but ultimately frustrating documentary.

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