Mnichov 1972

It was supposed to be a normal broadcast day at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Young and ambitious television producer Geoff (John Magaro) is trying to prepare the ABC sports broadcast schedule so that legendary producer Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) can have no objections. At that time, a few hundred meters from their team's facilities, a drama begins to unfold in which it is not about points or seconds, but about the lives of eleven Israeli athletes, who are ambushed by Palestinian commandos and held hostage right in the Olympic village. Although the team of "sportsmen" has minimal experience in covering this type of event, they are still able to get together in a short time and literally broadcast news inputs from the crime scene live to the whole world. Amidst the omnipresent confusion and quick decisions, the television journalists become unwanted actors in a bloody drama when they inform the terrorists with their footage that police snipers are approaching them. Tensions within the team increase because they do not have a clear answer to the question of whether responsibility or the right to information takes precedence. However, other and much more terrible dilemmas await them. The drama Munich 1972 can look forward to an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category.