The Red Sea Diving Resort

The Red Sea Diving Resort
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Directed by	Gideon Raff
Written by	Gideon Raff
Produced by	Aaron L. Gilbert Alexandra Milchan Gideon Raff
Starring	Chris Evans Haley Bennett Alessandro Nivola Michael K. Williams Michiel Huisman Alex Hassell Mark Ivanir Chris Chalk Greg Kinnear Ben Kingsley
Cinematography	Roberto Schaefer
Edited by	Tim Squyres
Music by	Mychael Danna
Production companies	Bron Studios EMJAG Productions Shaken Not Stirred
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	July 28, 2019 (2019-07-28) (SFJFF) July 31, 2019 (2019-07-31) (United States)
Running time	130 minutes
Countries	Canada United States
Language	English

The Red Sea Diving Resort (also known as Operation Brothers)^[1] is a 2019 spy thriller film written and directed by Gideon Raff. The film stars Chris Evans as an Israeli Mossad agent who runs a covert operation to rescue Ethiopian-Jewish refugees from Sudan to safe haven in Israel. Michael K. Williams, Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michiel Huisman, Chris Chalk, Greg Kinnear, and Ben Kingsley are in supporting roles.

The film is loosely based on the events of Israel's Operation Moses and Operation Joshua in 1984-1985, in which the Mossad covertly rescued Jewish-Ethiopian refugees who suffered from persecutions in Sudan in Africa, by smuggling them all the way to the safety of Israel, using a base at the once-abandoned holiday resort of Arous Village on the Sudanese Red Sea coast, about 70km (43 miles) north of Port Sudan.^[2]

The Red Sea Diving Resort premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on July 28, 2019, and was released on July 31, 2019, by Netflix. Critical reaction to the film was predominantly negative, while audiences were mixed to positive.^[3]