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A Danish cargo ship, MV Rozen, is hijacked by Somali pirates en route to Mumbai. The pirates, led by Omar (Abdihakin Asgar), who claims only to be the negotiator, take the crew of seven hostage and demand a ransom of $19 million in return for the ship and their lives.
- Tobias Lindholm
- 2 min
Jun 20, 2013 · But meetings with an American consultant (Gary Skjoldmose Porter) and initial negotiations by satellite phone with Omar (Abdihakin Asgar), the pirates’ “translator,” who channels messages from...
- Tobias Lindholm
- 2 min
Jun 21, 2013 · The biggest surprise of all was Abdihakin Asgar who plays Omar, the negotiator on the pirates’ side. He’s never done anything before. I just saw him on the streets of Copenhagen and I jumped ...
A Danish cargo ship, MV Rozen, is hijacked by Somali pirates en route to Mumbai. The pirates, led by Omar (Abdihakin Asgar), who claims only to be the negotiator, take the crew of seven hostage and demand a ransom of $19 million in return for the ship and their lives.
Jun 20, 2013 · The proceedings are mediated on land by a British piracy expert (Gary Skjoldmose Porter) and at sea by a no-less-savvy Somali translator (Abdihakin Asgar). Inspired by the seizure of several ...
Aug 16, 2013 · by Angelo Muredda Finely-tuned but incurious about most of what falls outside its blinkered gaze, A Hijacking is about as good as this sort of stripped-down procedural filmmaking gets–Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low reconfigured for a telephonic showdown between Somali pirates and Danish shareholders.
Jun 27, 2013 · It’s he who relays the ransom demands by phone from the pirate’s chief negotiator, Omar (Abdihakin Asgar), to the shipping company’s CEO, Peter (Soren Malling).
