Held for Ransom
Niels Arden Oplev, Anders W. Berthelsen, 2019
The ISIS Hostage
Puk Damsgård, 2015
Held for Ransom is a movie directed by Niels Arden Oplev and Anders W. Berthelsen in 2019 and based on the book The ISIS Hostage: One Man’s True Story of 13 Months in Captivity by Puk Damsgård, first published in 2015. The movie features Esben Smed Jensen, Toby Kebbell, Charlie Carrick, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Amir El-Masry, Fady Elsayed, and others.
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Storyline
Danish photographer Daniel Rye is captured by ISIS and held hostage alongside American journalist James Foley. As Daniel struggles to survive in captivity, hostage negotiator Arthur is determined to secure Daniel’s release.
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Movie vs Book
Year
2019
Minutes
138
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
Held for Ransom
Original title: Ser du månen, Daniel
Director: Niels Arden Oplev, Anders W. Berthelsen
Country: Denmark
Year: 2019
Length: 2h18m
Year
2015
Pages
261
Book Rate
8.84
S: Goodreads
Book
The ISIS Hostage
Original title: Ser du månen, Daniel
Subtitle: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity
Author: Puk Damsgård
Country: Denmark
First published in: 2015
Length: 261 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“In screenplay terms, writing a novel is more like writing a full 22 episode season of a TV series, than it is a movie.”
JEFF LYONS (Screenwriter)
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