One Day in September (1999)
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: doc (narr. Michael Douglas)
Synopsis:
The story, from all sides concerned, of the hostage crisis involving eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and their subsequent murder by their Palestinian captors.
Review:
The film sets the scene with both Jewish and Arab background stories, inducing a feeling of foreboding, and uses interviews, newsfootage and computer reconstruction with an unerring sense of irony and doom. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves, however, and neither side can complain of misrepresentation; only the Germans are left looking foolish.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: doc (narr. Michael Douglas)
Synopsis:
The story, from all sides concerned, of the hostage crisis involving eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and their subsequent murder by their Palestinian captors.
Review:
The film sets the scene with both Jewish and Arab background stories, inducing a feeling of foreboding, and uses interviews, newsfootage and computer reconstruction with an unerring sense of irony and doom. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves, however, and neither side can complain of misrepresentation; only the Germans are left looking foolish.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: doc (narr. Michael Douglas)
Synopsis:
The story, from all sides concerned, of the hostage crisis involving eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and their subsequent murder by their Palestinian captors.
Review:
The film sets the scene with both Jewish and Arab background stories, inducing a feeling of foreboding, and uses interviews, newsfootage and computer reconstruction with an unerring sense of irony and doom. The facts are allowed to speak for themselves, however, and neither side can complain of misrepresentation; only the Germans are left looking foolish.