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Munich |
| Cast |
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Eric
Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josee
Croze, Geoffrey Rush, Mathieu Kassovitz,
Ciarán Hinds |
| Producer |
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Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Colin
Wilson, Steven Spielberg |
| Director |
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Steven Spielberg |
| Genre |
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Drama, Thriller, Sports, Historical
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| Duration |
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164 mins |
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In September of 1972 an unprecedented
terrorist attack unfolded live before 900 million
television viewers across the globe and ushered
in a brave new world of unpredictable violence.
It was the second week of the Summer Olympics, and
in Munich, West Germany, the games that had been
dubbed "The Olympics of
Peace and Joy" were off to a rousing
start. Without warning, an extremist Palestinian
group known as Black September invaded the Olympic
Village, killing two members of the Israeli Olympic
team and capturing nine hostages.
The tense stand off and tragic massacre that ensued
played out with stunning immediacy on television
before an international populace and ended 21 hours
later when anchorman Jim McKay spoke the haunting
words, "They're all gone".
Mourning the massacre and infuriated by its savagery,
a young Israeli patriot and intelligence officer,
Avner is approached by a Mossad officer named Ephraim
who presents him with an unprecedented mission in
Israeli history. He asks Avner to leave behind his
pregnant wife, relinquish his identity and go completely
underground on a mission to hunt down and kill the
11 men accused of masterminding the murders.
Despite his inexperience, Avner becomes the leader
of a team of four very diverse yet highly skilled
recruits: the brash, tough, South African born getaway
driver, Steve; the German Jew Hans, who has a flair
for forging documents; the Belgian toymaker turned
explosives expert, Robert; and the quiet, methodical
Carl, whose job is to "clean
up" after the others. Avner and his
team circle the globe under a cloak of extreme secrecy,
tracking down each man on a closely guarded list
of targets and carrying out intricately plotted
assassinations. Working outside the rubric of international
law, adrift without home or family, their only connection
to humanity becomes one another.
But even that starts to fray as the four men begin
to argue among themselves about the unsettling questions
that just won't go away: "Who
exactly are we killing? Can it be justified? Will
it stop the terror?" The mission begins
to tear at the souls of Avner and his team, and
it becomes increasingly clear that the longer they
remain on the hunt, the more they are in danger
of becoming the hunted. |
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