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One Day in September
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User Rating:
7.9/10   2,885 votes
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Director:
Kevin Macdonald
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Release Date:
24 August 2000 (Australia) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
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User Comments:
A Fine Documentary more (54 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

Michael Douglas ... Himself / Narrator (voice)
Ankie Spitzer ... Herself
Jamal Al Gashey ... Himself
Gerald Seymour ... Himself
Axel Springer ... Himself
Gad Zahari ... Himself
Shmuel Lalkin ... Himself
Manfred Schreiber ... Himself
Walter Troger ... Himself
Ulrich K. Wegener ... Himself
Hans-Dietrich Genscher ... Himself
Schlomit Romajo ... Herself
Magdi Gahary ... Himself
Zvi Zamir ... Himself
Dan Shillon ... Himself
Heinz Hohensinn ... Himself
Esther Roth ... Herself
Hans Jochen Vogel ... Himself
Anouk Spitzer ... Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Howard Cosell ... Himself (voice) (archive footage)

Peter Jennings ... Himself (voice) (archive footage)
Jim McKay ... Himself (archive footage)
Mark Spitz ... Himself (archive footage)
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Directed by
Kevin Macdonald 
 
Produced by
John Battsek .... producer
Lillian Birnbaum .... executive producer
Arthur Cohn .... producer
Andrew Ruhemann .... associate producer
 
Original Music by
Alex Heffes 
 
Cinematography by
Neve Cunningham 
Alwin H. Kuchler  (as Alwin Küchler)
 
Film Editing by
Justine Wright 
 
Production Management
Alice Henty .... production manager
Dean Watkins .... post-production supervisor
 
Sound Department
Amir Boberman .... sound
Amir Boverman .... sound recordist
Wilm Brucker .... sound recordist
Gillian Dodders .... dialogue editor
Mark Heslop .... sound effects editor
Brendan Nicholson .... sound re-recording mixer
 
Visual Effects by
Willi Geiger .... research and development (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Philippe Bellaiche .... additional camera operator
Raymond Depardon .... special still photographer
Jeremy Forster .... additional camera operator
Hans Albrecht Lusznat .... additional camera operator
 
Animation Department
Peter Richardson .... computer animator
Ravi Swami .... computer animator
 
Editorial Department
Ian Davies .... assistant editor
Ian Moffat .... on-line editor
Nigel Shaw .... colorist
Dominic Thomson .... on-line editor
 
Music Department
Craig Armstrong .... composer: additional music
Liz Gallacher .... music supervisor
 
Other crew
Nick Fraser .... executive: BBC
Lynn Goldner .... production consultant
Dennis Hobbs .... production accountant
Monica Maurer .... researcher
Lin McConnell .... researcher
Felix Moeller .... researcher
Khalil Abed Rabbo .... researcher
Jo Ralling .... production consultant
Shanti Ramakuri .... production coordinator
Alan Reich .... production consultant
Peter Richardson .... title designer
Felicitas Stark .... researcher
Ravi Swami .... title designer
 
Thanks
Roone Arledge .... thanks
Tamar Ashuri .... thanks
Micha Battsek .... thanks
Hamish Crooks .... thanks
Steve Devlin .... thanks
Mike Devry .... thanks
Fred Emery .... thanks
Berndt Ender .... thanks
Morris Green .... thanks
Wendy Hedin .... thanks
Wilfried Huismann .... special thanks
Tom Jacomb .... special thanks
Tim Jefferies .... thanks
Peter Jennings .... thanks
Nigel Karikari .... thanks
Jo Lapping .... thanks
Galit Levy-White .... thanks
Sanford Lieberson .... special thanks (as Sandy Lieberson)
Cameron McCracken .... thanks
Nava Mizrahi .... thanks
Richard Needham .... thanks
Sebastian Palmer .... thanks
Rak Patel .... thanks
Thomas Reinecke .... thanks
Ben Silverman .... thanks
Sven Simon .... acknowledgment: archival stills provided by
Anne Rechess Spitzer .... special thanks
Charles Steele .... special thanks
Jan Wiesener .... thanks (as Dr. Jan Wiesener)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ein Tag im September (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some graphic violent images
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
Switzerland | Germany | UK
Language:
English | German
Color:
Black and White | Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Singapore:PG | Iceland:12 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | UK:15 | USA:R
Company:
Passion Pictures more

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Quotes:
Jim McKay: When I was a kid my father used to say our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized. Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said there were eleven hostages; two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. They're all gone. more
Movie Connections:
Features Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938) more
Soundtrack:
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29 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
A Fine Documentary, 22 May 2004
9/10
Author: canadude

"One Day in September" is a phenomenal documentary. Its focus is on the hostage situation during the 1972 Munich Olympics when Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes prisoner. The film does something which I think any great documentary should when it covers or explores historical events. It frames the entire hostage crisis in a larger context. Yes, the film covers 21 hours of September 5th on which the hostage situation commenced and (one could say) resolved itself. However, in order to understand the reactions of the German government, the Israeli government, the media and the Olympic Games' fans and participants, the film discusses the German desire to create the atmosphere of peace to erase the stigma of the 1936 Olympics, then full of Fascist propaganda. It touches on the ongoing Israel-Arab conflict. It touches on the meaning of the Olympics.

"One Day in September" never strays from its focus, however, which is to document the hostage crisis and what it meant. What makes the film great, aside from its intelligent approach to the subject, is how well the atmosphere of the hostage situation is carried across. By the end of the film you do feel like you've watched the news for a day, glued to the TV screen hoping that the people will make it out alive. Watching it, you are reminded of how ill-prepared states are for terrorist attacks (still rings true even recently) because of the ulterior motives of statesmen. A lot of what happens at the state, political level, happens because it has to look good. The Germans were unprepared for the terrorists because they thought that extreme police security would welcome images of pre-War Olympics in Germany. They wanted to appear a certain way. The same went for how they handled the crisis.

The film, like many terrorist crises, ends with a tragedy. What remains with the viewer is not only the deep sadness at how one of the most peaceful world events turns into one of the most hateful, but also how incredibly contemporary those events from over thirty years ago still seem.

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