A new film, September 5, offers a unique perspective on the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis by focusing on the ABC Sports crew's live broadcast of the events.
In 1972, the Palestinian militant organization Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village during the Summer Games in Munich, Germany. They killed two members of the Israeli Olympic Team and took nine others hostage. This event, known internationally as the Munich massacre, has been depicted in cinema through documentaries like One Day In September and blockbusters like Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
Now, a new film, September 5, tackles the events from a fresh perspective — the ABC sports/news anchors and producers broadcasting the events live for the world to watch on television in real time. September 5 depicts and recounts the events of the heartbreaking 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis. This film is shot entirely from the perspective of the ABC Sports crew’s coverage of the internationally traumatic events. Peter Sarsgaard leads the ensemble cast as Roone Arledge, the creator of modern sports entertainment, with Ben Chaplin playing Marvin Bader, the VP of Olympic operations during the emergency. The film also co-stars John Magaro (Past Lives) and Leonie Benesch (The Crown). Collider’s own Steve Weintraub was lucky enough to sit down with the brains behind September 5, director Tim Fehlbaum and producer John Ira Palmer. Together they discussed the propulsive nature of the story and editing, the difficulty balancing the fast pace with moments of breath, and genuinely hoping audiences leave the theater asking themselves important questions. Tim Fehlbaum Directed ‘September 5’ As if It Were Broadcast Live COLLIDER: I have a ton of questions for you guys. I read that you shot a lot of footage when you were on set, and the movie is 90-something minutes. What the hell was this edit actually like? TIM FEHLBAUM: The person who could answer that question the best, of course, is the editor Hansjörg Weißbrich, but I know that we collected a lot of footag
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