September 5 2024 WEB.BluRay Torrent Download

34/23

I was honored to see this excellent film at the AFI Film Festival

Plot

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, the American sports team finds itself forced to cover a hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

The film takes place in the ABC control room in Munich during the 1972 Olympics

It realistically depicts both the routine aspects of running the control room during the event and then, of course, the tragic occurrence of the Black September attack on the Israeli athletes.

The film also accurately demonstrates how technology that was considered cutting-edge at the time looks amusingly primitive today (examples include giant VTR machines competing for satellite space, manual graphics insertion, etc)

The control room features ABC Sports President Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard), budding producer Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro), Vice President of Olympic Coverage Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), and German translator Marianne Gebhardt (Leonie Benesch), all of whom are excellent in their roles.

Adding to the realism is the use of archival footage of Jim McKay reporting on the tragedy

But the key aspect of any thriller is the writing and direction by Tim Fehlbaum, who keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the film.

But that complaint certainly doesn’t stop me from highly recommending this excellent film – you have to see it!

My only minor complaint is the casting of Benjamin Walker as Peter Jennings – he doesn’t seem quite right to play the handsome and elegant anchorman I remember (I’d probably cut his character out and rely solely on the footage of Jennings’ speech from the Olympic Village).