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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Karim Saleh | ... | Ziad Jarrah | |
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Maral Kamel | ... | Mohammed Atta (as Kamel) |
Agni Scott | ... | Aysel (as Agni Tsangaridou) | |
Omar Berdouni | ... | Ramzi bin al Shibh | |
Adnan Maral | ... | Marwan Shehhi | |
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Kamel Boutros | ... | Mohammed Atta (as Kamel) |
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Tamer Doghem | ... | Zacarias Moussaoui |
Khalid Laith | ... | Abdul Aziz AlOmari | |
Nasser Memarzia | ... | Assem | |
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Omar El-Saeidi | ... | Said al Ghamdi |
Bassem Breish | ... | Yasser | |
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Mark Clifton | ... | Flight Simulation Instructor |
Navid Navid | ... | Salim (as Navíd Akhavan) | |
Joel Kirby | ... | FBI Agent | |
Clayton Nemrow | ... | Pan Am Instructor |
Ziad Jarrah, a young Lebonese man from a good family goes to Germany to attend college and starts dating a Turkish girl named Aysel. Although not very religious and accustomed to Western ways, Ziad becomes "brothers" with some fundamentalist Muslims and is slowly drawn into becoming "a Good Muslim". Mohamed Atta and others instill Ziad with a hatred of Jews and "Infidels", which leads to a desire for Jihad and martyrdom. He moves to Hamburg to study aeronautical engineering, attends an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, and deceives his girlfriend and family about his involvement. He eventually attends flight school in Florida with Atta and others, waiting for and preparing for "the big wedding" (the 9/11 attack). Meanwhile, US government and law enforcement officials fail to act despite believing that a major terrorist attack is imminent, and despite noticing a number of suspicious persons involved in flight training. Written by TimeNTide
The Hamburg Cell is a docudrama about the cell of Muslim fundamentalists that conducted the 9/11 attack. It starts about 5 years before 9/11 and follows many of the pilots in their efforts to get flight training and covers what was going on in some of their private lives. Not sure how much of it was accurate, seemed pretty realistic to me. Most seemed to just be looking for some fulfillment in their lives, but chose an extreme way to get it. It also shows the missteps, in hindsight, by US law enforcement agencies as these people could have been caught many times during their training. I don't think it really explained the reasons the terrorists chose to conduct their attack, but I guess we will never really know all the facts behind it. Technically a good film with few continuity errors and some good cinematography. The acting seemed a little hollow.