Munich

original title:
Munich
other titles:
(München)
country / year of production:
USA / 2005 (x)
original length:
164 min. , color
premiere:
23 December 2005
genre:
history film
based on:
George Jonas. Vengeance. The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
director:
Steven Allan Spielberg
film script:
Tony Kushner , Eric Roth
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cast (role):
Eric Bana , Daniel Craig , Ciarán Hinds
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place during the olympic games in Munich in 1972 and deals with the invasion of terrorists in the olympic village on 5th of September. The peaceful games were turned into horror, when eight masked Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athlets and took nine more as hostages. Their demand was to release Arab prisoners from Israeli and German prisons. But the journey of the terrorists and their hostages endet at Munich airport, where all hostages were accidently killed by military forces. Afterwards the Israeli government demanded to track down the responsible Palestinians. A nation's act of revenge started.
keywords:
terrorism , execution , secret service , special forces , authenticity , based on a true story
war:
"War against Terrorism"
literature:
Simon Reeve. One day in September. The story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, a government cover-up and a covert revenge mission. London: Faber and Faber, 2001.
remarks:
Official Homepage: http://www.munichmovie.com/splash.html

See also: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/696/66630/

Guri Weinberg plays the role of his own father, who was killed during the assassination.
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