SEPTEMBER 5 Special Screenings

SEPTEMBER 5

Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, writer and producer Tim Fehlbaum and actors Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin moderated by Executive Editor (Awards) of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg.

At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the ABC Sports broadcasting crew led by Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) must suddenly pivot to covering hard news when the Israeli Olympic team is taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. The tragic events from that day are well known to history, but less so are the extraordinary efforts of journalists who made quick and innovative – though less than ideal – decisions to document them as they unfolded. After shots ring out from the Olympic Village neighboring the ABC Sports studio, the German police lock down the area, with only resident athletes allowed entry. Realizing that their sports unit may be able to cover a breaking story no news division can, Arledge’s team goes to work: wheeling a massive TV camera outside to get images of the terrorists on an apartment balcony, impersonating a U.S. athlete to smuggle 16mm equipment in and out of the village and promoting German translator Marianne Gebhardt (Leonie Benesch) to a de facto field reporter. Director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum captures not only the urgency of the moment and the creative solutions to multiples challenges, but also where accuracy becomes endangered in the drive to get the story. –Todd Hitchcock

Tim Fehlbaum is a Swiss writer and director. Fehlbaum made his feature directorial debut with HELL (2011). He received the German New Faces Award in 2012 and was listed as one of Variety’s 10 European Directors to Watch. In 2021, his sci-fi thriller TIDES premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and subsequently won four German Film Awards and two Bavarian Film Awards.

Details

Country: Germany

Year: 2024

Director: Tim Fehlbaum

Screenwriter: Moritz Binder

Producers: Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, Tim Fehlbaum, Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, John Wildermuth

Director of Photography: Markus Förderer

Editor: Hansjörg Weißbrich

Costume Designer: Leonie Zykan

Music: Lorenz Dangel

Cast/Featuring: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem

Running Time (minutes): 91

Languages: English, German

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