Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair is a 1990 TV miniseries based on the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking and starring Burt Lancaster. The two part series aired on TV in 1990 and was filmed on the
Voyage of Terror The Achille Lauro Affair
Leon Klinghoffer
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Leon Klinghoffer was an American store owner and appliance creator who was shot, killed and thrown overboard from the cruise ship Achille Lauro by members of the Palestinian Liberation Front who hijac
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
…against Israel. However, when they're found out during the trip, they decide to hijack the ship and take all passengers hostage. Among them are Mr. Leon Klinghoffer (Burt Lancaster), a disabled Jewish-American, and his wife Marilyn Klinghoffer, who is hiding from her husband the fact she has skin cancer. Also taken…
The last photo of Leon Klinghoffer, taken on the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985.
Peter Sellars, who originated the concept of the opera The Death of Klinghoffer and directed its first performance.