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Historical drama starring Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro. When members of the Israeli Olympic team are attacked and held hostage during the 1972 Games in Munich, the TV crew at ABC Sports realise they can provide live coverage. However, worldwide broadcast is still a fledgling technology, and over a fraught 24 hours the under-experienced unit scrambles to provide the best possible ongoing report.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Jeremy Aspinall

The tragic events that unfolded at the 1972 Munich Olympics - when 11 Israeli athletes were taken captive by pro-Palestinian militants - have been chronicled to Oscar-winning effect in documentary One Day in September (1999) and dramatised in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005). However, the focus for this Oscar-nominated thriller is an American TV sports crew, whose wall-to-wall coverage of the Games is starkly superseded when shots ring out from the nearby Olympic village - with John Magaro's fledgling producer left to take his team out of their comfort zone and cover the crisis live. The film's slim 94 minutes and confinement to the studio ensures there's no slackening in the tension, while the crew's use of old-school, largely manual broadcast tech as they compete for satellite time is staggering to consider. Magaro is excellent, grappling with doing his job while deadly chaos erupts outside, as are Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and Peter Sarsgaard as ABC Sports' bullish but supportive president.

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Cast

rolenameRoone ArledgePeter SarsgaardGeoffrey MasonJohn MagaroMarvin BaderBen ChaplinMarianne GebhardtLeonie BeneschJacques LesgardsZinedine SoualemGladys DeistGeorgina RichHank HansonCorey JohnsonPeter JenningsBenjamin Walker

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rolenameDirectorTim Fehlbaum

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Theatrical distributor

Paramount

Released on

2025-02-06

Languages

English | German | Hebrew

Guidance

Swearing

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Colour

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