15 Minutes of War (L'Intervention)
DVD Cover
Main Cast
Character
Actor
Captain André Gerval
Alban Lenoir
Jane Andersen
Olga Kurylenko
Georges Campère
Michael Abiteboul
Pierre Cazeneuve
Sébastien Lalanne
Patrice Lorca
David Murgia
Jean-Luc Larrain
Guillaume Labbé
Philip Shafer
Ben Cura
Barkhad
Kevin Layne
L'Intervention is a 2019 French action movie directed by Fred Grivois. The movie is directly inspired by the real hostage-taking of Loyada, Djibouti in 1976. When Somalis independantists hijack a school bus of French militaries personnel's children. The Gendarmerie send their best snipers. For the first time they will use the simultaned shot.
The following weapons were used in the film L'Intervention :
Pistols and Revolvers
Manurhin MR-73
French Gendarmes, including GIGN members use the famous Manurhin MR-73 .
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Captain Gerval (Alban Lenoir ) use a sport version with 5.25 barrel of the MR-73.
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MAC Mle 1950
The leader of the terrorist (Kevin Layne ) use a MAC Mle 1950 to threaten the teacher and kill a French Gendarme. Later Jane (Olga Kurylenko ) take the pistol from the dead terrorist to defend the children. Some uniformed French Gendarmes and soldiers carry the pistol too.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Barkhad force the bus driver to go at Somali border. In fact, if the barrel is pressed against something, is normally not possible to fire the pistol.
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Luger P08
Gendarme Campère, use in akimbo with his MR-73, a Luger P08 Artillery .
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M1911
One terrorist negociate with Somalian soldiers and lays his M1911 on a table.
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Rifles
FRF1
The GIGN snipers use as main weapon, the MAS FR F1 rifles to realise a very efficient simultaned shot. Scopes seems to be civilian version.
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AK Rifles
Terrorists and several Somalian soldiers use AK-47 and AKM with full stocks and folding stocks.
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MAS 49/56
CIA observator Shafer, join the GIGN team when it miss a shooter to realise the simultaned shot. Captain Gerval give him a MAS 49/56 as weapon of choice.
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Modèle 1892 Artillery Carbine
Somalian army, use a huge variety of firearms, including Modèle 1892 Artillery Carbine .
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12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
At least one Somalian soldier is seen with an old Shotgun.
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Mauser Rifle
We can briefly see a kind of Mauser rifle, hard to determinate which one exactly.
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Submachine Guns
MAT-49
French army soldiers and Legionnaires carry througout the movie MAT-49. But never seen fired and not very clearly.
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Machineguns
MG42
Somalian troops use MG42 against the snipers team.
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Explosive
Grenades
In the last moment of the gunfight Somalian soldiers throw OF 37 hand grenade , which are throw back by gendarmes and Jane Olga Kurylenko .
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Trivia
Simultaned Shot
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filed Ammunition
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