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Another greeting from the darkness
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, the American sports broadcasting team must adapt to live coverage of Israeli athletes being held hostage by a terrorist group. 1972 is a year of significant events. Swimmer Mark Spitz set seven world records on his way to seven gold medals. Belarusian gymnast Olga Korbut won three gold medals (though not in the all-around). The United States and Russia played out one of the strangest and most controversial games in Olympic history. Most importantly, the 1972 Munich Olympics are remembered for the tragedy in which a masked Palestinian group took 10 members of the Israeli team hostage.
From the perspective of the ABC production team
Writer-director Tim Fehlbaum and screenwriters Moritz Binder and Alex David recount the events. Historically, these were the first Olympics to be broadcast live on television. They were also the first to be held in Germany since 1936 (the Jesse Owens Games). Those games were only 27 years after the end of World War II. A quick math tells us that 27 years ago, this film premiered in 1997, the year Princess Diana died. Simply put, the physical and mental wounds had not yet fully healed, and Germany was trying to push the past away.
ORIGINS, 2014) choosing to film everything in the ABC control room
Famed ABC sports producer Roone Arledge (played by Peter Sarsgaard) is the man covering the Olympics. New broadcast producer Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro, PAST LIVES, 2023) is brought in to handle the “downtime” while Arledge rests. Mason’s experience includes playing in major league baseball, so this is his first at-bat in the big leagues. His superior, Marvin Bader (played by Ben Chaplin, THE THIN RED LINE, 1998), trusts his young protégé, but when gunfire rings out, things quickly go awry. The film’s genius comes from director Fehlbaum and cinematographer Marcus Forderer (I. This adds to the claustrophobia and pressure as the crew grapples with how best to handle this unfolding and, of course, historic moment.
It’s no longer a matter of swimming and sprinting, but now ABC Sports vs
ABC News … and with ownership being the proverbial 9/10 law, Arledge fights to keep the story close to his team. Anchor Jim McKay can be seen in the footage, while reporter Peter Jennings is on hand. Translator Marianne Gebhardt (Leonie Benesch, who was amazing in THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE, 2023) is the only one who speaks German and is very important in reporting on the content broadcast on the local radio. It is difficult to express how much excitement this film brings to both the television crew and the audience. The masked Palestinian militant group Black September has captured ten members of the Israeli Olympic team in the Olympic village.
Select cinemas 12/13/2024 and widely 1/10/2025
We know how history unfolded during those hours, and it is chilling to look back from this perspective. Geopolitical aspects are discussed (Bader was Jewish), but that is not what it is about. Journalism may be heavily criticized these days, but it is precisely in historical moments that we rely on competent, trained professionals to tell (and show) the stories that the world needs to know.
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