September 5

In the organizer's words:

Suddenly everything is different. The cheerful character of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games comes to an abrupt end when terrorists take Israeli athletes hostage. It is September 5, 1972, and the sports team from US broadcaster ABC hears gunshots in the Israeli quarters at 4:40 in the morning. A Palestinian group has taken eleven Israeli athletes hostage. Against the resistance of the news department, the ABC sports team takes over the live report via satellite of the 21-hour hostage-taking. Again and again the question arises as to whether this is ethically correct and how far it is permissible to go. A constantly fascinating chronicle of the events and the failures of politics, the police - and the media?

"There's a shot in the film where we first see the monitors in the TV studio, with the camera pointed at the balcony where a hostage-taker is staying and then the camera pans over and we see a few people watching boxing matches in the background. That's why I wanted to make this movie, because it says something about our ability to dissociate. I read the news in the morning and I get caught up in it, have a coffee and then I think about something else. I think it's a survival skill that we've developed; the ability to switch off. The question the movie asks, which I think is essential, is to what extent it helps us to develop a deeper understanding of a conflict or situation when we consume violence live. The film describes the birth of infotainment, so to speak, and I think this has a lot to answer for in our progressive blunting of our perception of violence and conflict." (Leonie Benesch in VOGUE)

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