One Day in September

One Day in September
by Kevin Macdonald

One Day in September
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Actor: Ankie Spitzer, Axel Springer, Gerald Seymour, Jamal Al Gashey, Michael Douglas
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Alwin H. Kuchler
Cinematographer: Neve Cunningham
Editor: Justine Wright
Producer: Andrew Ruhemann
Producer: Arthur Cohn
Producer: John Battsek
Producer: Lillian Birnbaum
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); German (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of One Day in September

Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Though its soundtrack choices are bizarre and inappropriate at times (Deep Purple during a montage of death?), One Day in September does an excellent job mixing interviews with computer simulations and archive footage to not only display what happened during the Munich atrocity, but also to point the finger of blame.

Summary of One Day in September

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/20/2005 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R
On September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine others hostage at the Munich Olympic Village. The event stopped the games, gripped the world, and perhaps for the first time fully illustrated the volatile state of affairs in the Mideast to the world. Kevin Macdonald's 1999 Academy Award(r)-winning documentary painstakingly reconstructs the events, shedding light on what the world saw on television with the exasperating revelation of behind-the-scenes blunders.

This visceral, tense film uses riveting news footage to great effect, weaving in affecting interviews. Macdonald mourns the deaths of the innocent Olympic hostages and dutifully gives a voice to the Palestinian cause through interviews with Jamal al-Gashey, the only survivor of the eight terrorists, who briefly came out of hiding for the film. He earnestly but half-heartedly sketches a picture of the social and political situation that fueled the act, reserving his anger for the grossly unprepared German police force. The tragedy that erupted at the F?rstenfeldbruck air base becomes all the more upsetting in light of the incompetence and unforgivable mistakes: botched rescues, poor planning, bad intelligence, and lack of contingency plans. Even the irresponsibility of the media circus gets off lightly. It's a sobering, angering, often frustrating piece of non-fiction cinema, a thorough piece of historical research brought to life with an angry immediacy. Macdonald simply doesn't know what lessons to draw from it all. --Sean Axmaker

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