"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
Writing
Satire sharper than actual Mossad tradecraft.
Production
Rare Israeli-French-Palestinian collaboration.
Director
Emmanuel Naccache
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released when the real Dubai assassination was still fresh international news, making its satire almost dangerously timely.
Bar Refaeli's casting as an agent sparked controversy given her Israeli military service and the film's political edges.
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