Torun, Poland – While Gideon Raff’s Netflix thriller “The Red Sea Diving Resort” shot largely in South Africa and Namibia, the project was a welcomed opportunity for cinematographer Roberto Schaefer due to his own memorable travels through Ethiopia.
The film, which screened in the EnergaCamerimage Intl.
Film Festival’s Contemporary World Cinema section, is loosely based on an operation by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, to evacuate Jewish Ethiopian refugees to Israel in the 1980s using an abandoned seaside resort in Sudan.
Chris Evans, Ben Kingsley, Michael Kenneth Williams and Greg Kinnear star.
“Story-wise obviously it moved me very much,” Schaefer said, speaking at the film’s screening in Torun, Poland on Thursday.
“I had sort of a personal connection to it because in 1972 I visited Ethiopia with my sister and my brother-in-law.
We travelled around the whole country and we went to three different Falasha villages – Ethiopian Jews are Falashas.
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