SEPTEMBER 5
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Benjamin Walker, Georgina Rich
It’s been twenty years since Steven Spielberg’s Munich reminded audiences of the terrorist event known as Black September. The new film September 5 brings us right back to that frightful event. It’s the 20th Olympiad in 1972 in Munich, Germany. ABC News has a crew on site covering the Olympics with the filmmakers showcasing the great lengths it took to broadcast live with the limited technology available. That’s on top of what it meant to be halfway around the world working in a different time zone from when a typical broadcast schedule airs. This was mainly a sports team on the ground with Peter Sargsaard playing Roone Arledge, the president of ABC Sports and John Magaro plays Geoffrey Mason who was in control calling the shots of what should air live back in the United States. It was late one night when gun shots went off in the Olympic village at the Israeli headquarters. Word travels that hostages have been taken, and it’s up to the ABC Sports team to pivot and work around the clock to vet and cover this terrorist situation in real time. In theaters
Here’s my review
