“IHOSTAGE”: hostage in Amsterdam Apple Store for Netflix

A dead and many frightened and traumatized employees as well as Apple-Store visitors: An incident that took place in 2022 in the Amsterdam shop of the iPhone manufacturer, was now filmed by Netflix. The action strip available from April 18 called “ihostage” However, if the events are only “inspired”, it works in the already published Trailer However, very real.

“According to true events”

February 22, 2022, LeidsePeprein: A man who runs into the Apple Store with a weapon and supposedly clothed with an explosive vest in the meantime up to 70 people. The police say that Apple's man demands a total of 200 million euros in cryptocurrency. He threatened people for several hours, but many can quickly escape. In the end there was a victim who, fortunately, was able to free itself from a police robot when the food was handed over. When the perpetrator wants to follow the victim, he is approached by a civil police vehicle and dies near the crime scene.

From the incident, which briefly occurred intensively in the Dutch media and the world press – because of Apple – now emerged in the Netherlands “Ihostage”. “A man involuntarily gets into a life -threatening situation when an armed person takes a group of people as hostages. A gripping drama, the courage, survival and the consequences of such terror illuminates from different perspectives, writes Netflix.

Resolved Apple Store

In the “thriller for true events”, Soufiane Moussouli, Admir Sehovic, Emmanuel Ohene Boafo, Louis Talpe, Marcel Hensema and Loes Haverkort play. It is an hour and 40 minutes long, the original language is Dutch.

Apple himself did not want to comment on the film on request. According to the information available, Mac & I was not shot in the Apple Store Amsterdam, even if the scenes in the trailer look very real-from the architecture to the interior to the typical Apple tables and expenses including advertisements for the products. The actors, the store assistants, also carry Apple logos on their chest.