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It was a privilege to see this excellent film at the AFI Film Festival

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During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports team is forced to cover a hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

The film is set in the ABC control room in Munich during the 1972 Olympics

It realistically depicts both the routine aspects of running a control room during an event and, of course, the tragic event of the Black September attacks on Israeli athletes.

The film also accurately shows how technology that was considered cutting edge at the time but seems amusingly primitive today (examples include giant VTR machines competing for satellite space, manual insertion of graphics, etc) is used

The control room is populated by ABC Sports president Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard), up-and-coming producer Jeffrey Mason (John Magaro), vice president of Olympic coverage Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), and German translator Marian Gebhardt (Leoni Benes), all of whom are excellent in their roles.

Adding to the realism is the use of archive footage of Jim McKay’s report on the tragedy

But the key aspect of any thriller is Tim Felbaum’s writing and direction, which keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the film.

But this quibble doesn’t stop me from highly recommending this excellent film – a must see!

My only minor complaint is the casting of Benjamin Walker as Peter Jennings – he doesn’t seem quite suited to playing the dashing, dapper newscaster I remember (I probably would have cut his character out and simply relied on the recording of Jennings speaking from the Olympic Village).

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