This movie tells the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics when the entire Israeli team was captured and killed by a Palestinian terrorist group. It focuses on the ABC Sports team covering the games who found themselves broadcasting one of the biggest news stories in history.
Director/co-writer Tim Fehlbaum, co-writer/producer Moritz Binder and film editor Hansjörg Weissbrich gathered this week for a Deadline Virtual Screening Series presentation and post-screening Q&A for Paramount’s critically acclaimed awards contenderin late summer, has become a highly praised effort to tell the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics when the entire Israeli team was captured by a Palestinian terrorist group and eventually killed.
Added Binder: “It was a life-changing thing. Not just for those involved there, but for the news business. This was the first time really you saw a live event going out globally like that in real time. This was a monumental turning point for television. And for that, they had set up cameras everywhere. And it was also the first broadcast, Olympic broadcast, that could go globally as there were live satellite broadcasts before but not globally where it has been received by so many countries.
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