A Daring Rescue Mission in Paradise
Meet Kebede Bimro, an Ethiopian Jew, and Ari Levinson, an Israeli Mossad agent. Their mission: to smuggle Jewish-Ethiopian refugees to safety in Israel. Ari knows he needs a cover story to operate freely in Sudan. So, he hatches a bold plan: rent the abandoned Red Sea Diving Resort and pose as a regular tourist business. This way, they can use the resort as a front to move refugees out of the country.
The plan is risky, but it gets approved. Ari assembles his team of former Mossad colleagues – a group of resourceful and dedicated individuals. However, things get complicated when their fake brochures actually attract real tourists! Now, they have to run a real resort while secretly smuggling refugees on the side. It’s a balancing act, but for a while, it works. They manage several successful escapes, ferrying refugees to a waiting Israeli ship.
Just when they think they’re getting ahead, their luck runs out. A Sudanese colonel, Abdel Ahmed, gets suspicious after capturing refugees and stumbles upon Kebede Bimro’s name. He pays the resort a visit, but thankfully doesn’t uncover their operation.
Things take another turn for the worse when Ari and Sammy are caught by Sudanese soldiers after a close call during an escape mission. Though they’re eventually released, they return to the resort to devastating news: the mission is scrapped.
Meanwhile, tension builds as Rachel is forced to kill a Sudanese soldier who discovers hidden refugees. Realizing they have no choice, Ari devises a one-last, audacious plan – a daring escape by cargo plane with the help of a CIA officer, Walton Bowen. They transport the remaining refugees to a deserted airfield, narrowly avoiding capture by Colonel Ahmed. In a heart-pounding finale, they manage to extract themselves and the refugees, finally achieving their goal.
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Starring Chris Evans, Michael K. Williams and Haley Bennett, The Red Sea Diving Resort is based on true events, namely the Operation Brothers mission which ran from 1979 to 1984 and saved the lives of thousands of Ethiopian Jews. In reality, and as depicted in the film, an abandoned hotel did serve as the perfect cover for a risky operation smuggling Ethiopian Jewish refugees through the hotel on the East African coast, sending them onwards by boat to safety and new lives in Israel. Official information related to the mission was declassified only in recent years.
