A terrorist organisation kills eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. However, a team of five men, headed by Avner Kaufman, is assigned the task of killing the terrorists as revenge.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriters: Tony Kushner, Eric Roth
Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds
Munich can't quite achieve its lofty goals, but this thrilling, politically even-handed look at the fallout from an intractable political conflict is still well worth watching.
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing...
as Avner
as Steve
as Carl
as Robert
as Hans
as Daphna
as Ephraim
as Avner's Mother
as Louis
as Andreas
as Sylvie
as Yvonne
as Jeanette
as Tony
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Barry Mendel, Colin Wilson
Editor: Michael Kahn
Casting: Lucky Englander, Fritz Fleischhacker, Jina Jay
Director Of Photography: Janusz Kamiński
Original Music Composer: John Williams
Costume Design: Joanna Johnston
Production Design: Rick Carter
Source: based on the book by George Jonas
Tagline: The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.
Genres: action, drama, history, thriller
Certificate: R
Categories: black september, mossad, israel, assassination, terrorism, year 1972, lebanon, honey trap, munich olympics, vengeance, plo, covert operation, arab israeli conflict, jew, commando, hit squad, french intelligence, palestinian, baader meinhof, chase, beirut, reference to golda meir, middle east, hostage, terrorism
Year: 2005
Runtime: 164 min
Country: Canada, USA, France
Language: Arabic, German, English, French, Hebrew, Italian
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Sound Mix: DTS-ES, Dolby Digital EX, SDDS, Dolby SR
Munich ricochets all over the place, but it hits its target dead-on.
It's a smart, mesmerizing and often angry film, from a truly confident filmmaker, but it remains, maddeningly, just beyond our grasp. Full Review ...