Peter Sarsgaard tells PEOPLE about the larger ethical questions his new movie 'September 5' poses as it looks back on the ABC News journalists who covered the 1972 Summer Olympics hostage crisis in Munich, Germany.
'September 5,' which follows an ABC News broadcast team covering the 1972 Olympic hostage crisis, is in select theaters nowdepicts the Israeli hostage crisis at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany from the perspective of American sports journalists. Sarsgaard, 53, tells PEOPLE the film, from director Tim Fehlbaum, powerfully recounts ABC News' difficult decision to roll cameras throughout the incident.
"When I came across the script, I was really blown away by the fact that these sports journalists had to — it's not just like sports journalists covering news," Sarsgaard says. "Even for news journalists, the ethics of dealing with this live camera and the decisions that were being made would've been challenging for them as well.
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