MOVIE NEWS – Spring hasn’t even arrived yet, and critics are already calling September 5th, which tells the story of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics from the perspective of a TV crew, one of the best films of the year.

On September 5, 1972, eight militants from the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September killed two Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympic Village and took nine more hostage. They were attacked at the airport by West German police commandos, and in the poorly prepared operation, all the hostages died, and five terrorists and a German policeman also lost their lives.

It is worth remembering that Steven Spielberg made an excellent film called Munich, which depicts the Israeli secret service’s response, not neglecting to dissect the moral concerns surrounding cruel revenge. (Munich was partly filmed in Budapest, and in the summer of 2005 half of the city center was closed due to construction work, which is still remembered by those who wanted to get to work on time in the morning.)

Tim Fehlbaum’s current film presents the work of BBC correspondents who arrive in the Bavarian capital to report on world-shaking sporting events, but suddenly find themselves in the middle of a hostage drama. At first, neither the technical nor the professional conditions are available for the crew to rise to the occasion, but they quickly find themselves and do the job with honor, experiencing the most hellish moments of their lives.

Critics and audiences unanimously speak of the film in superlatives, emphasizing that every moment is full of tension, because the viewer is not watching the events of a struggling workday of some press workers, but becomes a part of a real tragedy. September 5 has a 93 percent rating on the Rotten Tomatoes review portal.

(September 5 – now in Hungarian cinemas!)

Source: UIP