Munich (DVD Widescreen) [DVD]

love the soundtrck i feel as yho im in yhe movie thanks for the memories

The Summer Olympic Games were underway in the first week of September 1972. The Olympic Games were generally a joyous time of sportsmanship and competition. However, in this Olympics the world was changed when terrorists from the Black September group managed to infiltrate the Olympic village. They took 9 members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage and killed two others in the process. The terrorists demanded the release of over two hundred of their jailed comrades and flight out of what was then Munich, West Germany. The German officials attempted a rescue of the hostages, but the result was that all nine hostages were killed. Three of the terrorists survived. As a consequence of this event, the Israeli government authorized what they referred to as Operation Wrath of God. The security forces were told to hunt down and kill all people involved in planning the attack. This movie is a rendition of the actions of the Israeli team of agents that engaged in the killings. This is a tense movie and to the extent that it is possible, shows the events in a reasonable approximation to what actually happened. There were five members of the Israeli team from disparate backgrounds. The events of the taking of the hostages up to when they were killed is shown in flashback snippets, with the allegation that West German authorities bungled the rescue attempt not appearing until very late in the movie. The very brutal world of tit-for-tat terrorist acts between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the seventies is very much a part of the plot. Some of the violence is very graphic, but the turmoil felt by the agents is also an integral part of the story. Most of the people they kill are very respectable looking, totally outside the mold of the wild-eyed pistol waver. As they take care of their targets, there is a great deal of concern expressed by the team members as to whether they are really making a difference, wondering whether they were simply escalating the terrorist violence. This is a great movie, worthy of the accolades it received. However, if you do not understand the basic history of the event, reaching the proper level of historical significance of the events may not be possible.