The movie September 5 is opening in theaters nationwide this weekend, a few weeks after the film lost out to The Brutalist for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, with a screenplay by Fehlbaum, Mortiz Binder, and Alex Davide, September 5 chronicles the true story of an 1972 attack on the Israeli Olympic team, in which two athletes were killed and nine other athletes were taken hostage, by the now-defunct Palestinian militant group, Black September, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. The movie tells the story from the perspective of the ABC Sports news team, and even uses real, archived footage from the ABC broadcast of the events.
Peter Sarsgaard stars in the film as ABC Sports President Roone Arledge, Ben Chaplin stars as ABC Sports Operation Head Marvin Bader, and John Magaro stars as Geoffrey Mason, the head of
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