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Welcome to the Deadline Virtual Screening series.

I'm Pete Hammond, your host,

and very excited today

to be showing this truly great movie September five, uh,

which I saw, uh, at reviewed, actually I saw even

before the Venice Film Festival.

And then it went on to Telluride, many film festivals

and has gotten quite a bit

of critical acclaim along the way to say the least.

We will be showing you the whole film and then a q and a.

Don't go anywhere right after the movie

'cause we have a q and a right here.

You'll see the participants that I'm about to introduce.

Uh, director, co-writer Tim Felbam. Hi. Hi, Tim.

Hello. Hi everybody. Thanks for tuning in. Yeah,

Co-writer Moritz Binder. Hi Moritz.

Hi. Thank you Pete for having us.

Absolutely. And film editor Hans Jog Weisberg.

Hi everyone. Hi Pete. Thank you.

So without further ado, here is September five,

The 1972 Summer Olympics.

Nine days ago, the nations

of the world marched into the Olympic stadium

in Munich, west Germany.

And you were there live for this historical moment.

It was a starting signal for a peaceful post-war Germany

to share itself with the world at an Olympics full

of sporting sensations.

Now that more than half of the competition days are over,

we at a BC sports show you

how these pictures make their way from here in Munich

to your home overseas.

The games of 72 are the first in history

to be broadcast live via satellite across the world.

An unprecedented technical apparatus was set up

by the German organizers

and a BC sports has live cameras everywhere.

We even placed one on the Olympic Tower,

which gives us a nice aerial overview

of the entire Olympic Village.

Hey look, that's us from here.

We send everything to the bird

as we call this technical marvel orbiting Earth, allowing us

to bring the games to you live and in color.

But daytime for you means night shift for us.

And we're operating around the clock here in Munich

to ensure you don't miss a single moment of the action.

Stay tuned for many more highlights in the final days

of these glorious Olympics.

That's a good start for Mark

Spitz. Okay, now

cam two in position Cam two cam six.

Now Spitz takes the Lead cam one underwater cams.

Look at that style, those powerful moves

Up to one Spence leaves The German swimmer far behind.

He's about to write Olympic history here

by winning his seventh gold

Medal. Can't one tighten

him

And he'll get it.

Spence wins. Ready

for sp his closeup. No, go to the German

First.

Sure.

Camp two. Change of plans. Gimme the German swimmer

Er Lamba is devastated.

He even shaved his hair for this camp.

Two, but nothing stops history.

Spitz climbs out of the pool and runs towards his parents.

I can't believe it. Solid gold.

Tighter. Alright, six. Run over there.

Put six in preview.

That's it. Hold it now take six.

Finland was well represented at these Olympic games.

They were somewhat favored

but they were not expected to do as well as they did.

As you'll see,

Hello?

Thanks. I'm already away.

All captions for swimming and basketball. Hey Jeff.

Thank you. Sure. You were supposed to be here

before the show ends,

Right? I'm

minute 30 seconds early, right? Well, I'm New York.

I'm five hours early.

That's funny because do you screw this up?

I'm going in trouble with road.

So we need to go over the schedule.

It starts a volleyball oh nine 30 Group D covered

by C unit will be preps

for the soccer pre-match at 10 30. Alright.

Alright, you've got it. Bye.

Are you going on a date? I just got off

on Your wife says hello

McKay.

ACS Broken. And this concludes our daily report here at

the 20th Summer Olympics.

It's now 4:00 AM here in Munich

and soon the competition will begin again.

Jim set up the Spitz presser.

Mark Spitz, the American ath athlete

who said an all time Olympic record

by winning seven gold medals will be interviewed tomorrow

only here on ABC's.

Oh, come on. Not again. Jacque. What's going on?

Is it our feet? No it's not. Then why are my screens black?

The feet is clear. Close with the stinger.

Alright, roll take five

Up. Closes and

personal.

The A, B, C.

And we're clear. Alright. Okay.

It's back to you in New York. Great job everyone.

Everybody got the units turned tomorrow. Enjoy your day off.

Good night Di. See you on Thursday.

Good luck on your day. Nice.

Thanks Don. Enjoy the elk. I Will

Roo, excuse me.

I'd like to do a handover with Jeff. I

Did you check out Jennings doc out piece?

Not yet. Don't you watch it

and see if that's so be good.

I do have some concerns about cutting from

sports to the Holocaust

Because it's Jewish.

Right?

Since one of my ABC's expert on Judaism, he

Is spits What time's the pressor

4:00 PM Here's your lead in.

So you want to ask a Jew about the Holocaust

on live television?

Yeah. Ask him what it's like.

You want a golden Hitler's backyard?

Do you guys wanna follow me? Talk me through the day.

The day starts with

volleyball. It should be a pretty good match.

No US team. No.

Um, then this soccer intermediate round both,

uh, GDR versus Mexico.

Morocco versus Denmark. Burma versus Malaysia.

There's boxing. Great way. Hope he's in quarters with Telo

Cuban. Yeah, he is pretty good.

He knocked down end injuries in

30 seconds the first round.

So we lose and the whole thing's over in 30 seconds.

Doesn't matter. It's America versus Cuba. Sure.

You want bring in the politics.

It's not about politics, it's about Emotionals.

How about Cold War? Heats up again too.

Be lunches, missile at America's Hope.

It's too long, but it's good direction.

Has he ever done live coverage before? Yeah,

I did. He's done

golf tournaments and uh, minor league baseball.

I'll be back for the boxing. No calls until 10.

I promise my daughters.

Alright, good. So you prepped

that tease while I contemplate the demise of my fellow Jews.

Oh geez. It's like I'm spending another night here. Woo hoo.

No calls before 10. I promise myself

You fix that. Yeah.

On it. Only ev about nine miles lie

between the Serene Game Center

and Germany's darkest chapter in history.

Unimaginable atrocities were committed at the

Dachau concentration camp.

And yet 27 years

after the war, it has become a place of remembrance,

of reconciliation thanks to the Olympic spirit.

A spirit that makes images possible

that seemed impossible before.

That's exactly what the Olympics are all about.

You know, um, like our fencing coach Andrew says,

we are here, we can talk to Germans, um,

chat with athletes from Lebanon.

Right. This is what we've been dream about.

You know, not just sports.

You're in Germany, right? Uh, excuse me.

You're the new translator. Yes. Uh, can you do me a favor?

What, what is, what

is Hans saying here?

He's saying that the games are an opportunity

to welcome the world to a new Germany

to move on from the past.

Yeah, sure. I mean it's what we all hope for,

but as can we do, but move on.

Try to be better.

Are your parents still around?

Yes. Let me guess. They didn't know either, right?

But I'm not them.

No, no, you're, you're not.

I'm sorry. I'm Marvin Bader.

I know. Head of operations. Yeah.

I'm Mariana Gipa. Nice to meet you.

You too. Um, welcome to a BC.

I need to swap all cables then

Do it Grumpy has no spares.

At least not for a Frenchman,

German.

We really don't have any cables.

Hey, I am talking to you. We need cables.

Your boss fills out paper gives it to my boss.

Then you get cable.

Hey, has young man already taken his nap?

Uh, I dunno. He just left.

Anyway. I can help.

Yeah.

You got this? Yeah.

Where those gunshots?

A, B, C. Jeff Mason. Hi.

Did you hear? No. You haven't heard anything? Okay.

You got my number? Yeah. We'll let you know. Mr. Moore.

Thank you. Thank you. Goodbye.

Hey, Kenneth Moore just called

Marathon brother. Yeah.

He wanted to know if we heard gunshots.

So it was gunshots. What?

Uh, we heard gunshots in the distance.

Yeah. Hello? A,

uh,

police have already received several calls

and are investigating the matter and that's all they said.

I could walk over to, um, see what they know.

They are radio. They work late.

You know how these work. I'm on 10 too.

I,

uh,

Hey, sorry.

Can I borrow your receiver?

Sure. And the headphones too, please.

Thank you. I'll bring it back.

Thanks.

Still getting dropouts?

Yep. How often?

Constantly. Yeah. Can you sort this out on Hey. Morning.

Morning Gary, you hear gunshots?

What? It was just fireworks.

What did it sound like?

Like gunfire. Jeff, What's going on?

Anyone there? You there already?

No, I'm walking over the bridge,

but I can see dozens of police cars already.

Where? In the village?

Yes. Whatever happened. It happened. Here.

I need to wake Bader.

Mark. Get up. Wake up. Excuse me.

Shots fired in the Olympic Village. Shots.

Yeah, f*****g shots. Gunshots? Yeah. Serious. I don't know.

They, they're saying that there's a ton of police.

You serious? Yeah. Come on.

Can you hear me? Yeah, go ahead.

The f won't stop at a friend here had the shots were fired

in the Israeli apartments.

Excuse me. Gimme Uh, this, this is Bader.

What, what are we talking about here? Any anyone hurt?

Rumor is hostage taking.

Hostage is what? Who?

I don't know. Uh, but the PR will say

something on the six o'clock news.

Go to the control room. Call room. Room. Just yeah.

Call him and I'll get Jenny.

Jesus Christ.

Ruin ar just room. Please trust me.

He's gonna want to be woken up for this. I'm sorry.

Just connect me now, please.

Hello, Ruth. Jeff Mason. I said not to disturb.

I, I understand that, but there's a hostage situation going

on right now in the Olympic Village.

What are you talking About? Talking about a

hostage situation.

And it gets worse. It's in the Israeli quarters.

This is confirmed. Not yet. Wait.

They're about to say something on the German radio.

I'm gonna put you on the speaker

Here. Is

Can you translate this?

Let me check my receiver. There have been

reports of shots being fired inside the Olympic village.

Reports that have not yet been confirmed by the police.

Uh, say that the Israeli team may have been attacked

by so-called terrorists.

I'll be there at 20. Get the crew in.

So wake 'em up. I don't know.

We need as many bodies as possible. More of a well priority.

Our camera tell the bus leaves in 10 minutes. Okay?

And don't forget to bring Carter.

Is it confirmed? Yeah, it's definitely gunshots.

Definitely the Israelis. And this is from German radio

And we can't quote another station.

A second source got a liar.

One, possibly two Israeli athletes

killed at Olympic village.

Out gorillas likely to hostages.

Let me see that Carrie here.

What are we dealing with here?

P-L-O-P-F-L-P or worst case. Black September.

You know the political background?

You report from the inside. Okay.

Okay. Where are the Israelis housed?

Israel. Connolly str A 31.

And here.

Well this should give us a good angle.

Just seems like the police will seal the village.

Reporters here are Rushing to get in. Now

Peter, what's the situation?

I'm going in, but we need a camera man.

This is these rings. Where's the crew

For shuttle's on its way.

So when's Jim coming in?

It's his day off. I didn't call him.

We need Jim for this. Sorry. Right.

What time do we have the bird today?

3:00 PM 10:00 AM Eastern. No, we need the breakfast

Slot. Jim room.

Then you need the sweet talk. CBS.

Hi Margaret. Is you in there? He's in the pool.

He is doing his morning laps.

Who are you talking to? His wife.

Gimme that. Margaret. It's Marv. Uh, would you,

We're all ready to go still no camera man here yet.

What about him? Thank you.

Yep. He's trusted an assistant. Hey, what's your name?

Uh, Ben. Ben. You ever hold a camera before? Yeah.

How to change film? Sure. Okay. There's your guy.

News will want to take over

Soon. I'll

talk to them As soon as he can. Would be.

Thank you so much. I,

and I hope we didn't ruin. Jim's gonna anchor.

Okay. We need someone at the press center.

I doubt Hans is releasing anything at this point.

What about you? You know him.

If anything happens would be the first to know.

Yeah. Let's, let's have Jeff

coordinate the setup up while I'm gone.

Not on his first day with eight unit.

Right. How about Omar?

He's on a hiking trip in the Alps.

Mattick Keep trying. No answer but it's early so

I'll handle CBS in the satellite.

You get me something to feed the bird? Okay.

Alright. So what do we hear?

Whatever info I get from Klein,

I'm talking visual.

We're just gonna show Jim talking. We can't do that.

The footage of bench, it's going

to take 20 minutes to develop.

We have to have a live image. Can we use that mobile unit?

The guys with The backpack? It's only wide angle.

We need a long lens. It's happening right there.

Wait, we're We are here?

Yeah. So why don't we just wheel out one

of the studio camps.

We can put it right here. Gives

us a live shot of the apartment.

Anything on the hostages yet, only

Mixed information. We'll

call around to get things double

checked and then you have a walking.

Okay. Channel four.

Okay, Robert?

Uh, coffee, aspirin.

And a list of today's slots on the satellite

Right away.

All right. You know what happened? Get to work.

Need four men in the studio. Yeah,

You're the big boss.

Now

Come with me.

I'm gonna take camp two

outside. We're gonna go live with you.

You do know how heavy those are. The wiring be tricky.

I trust you'll get it. Okay. You're too Frenchy. Come on.

Yeah.

Yeah. Hello is Mariana from

There is nothing I can do about it.

CBS has had that plot booked for

Months. Listen to me. It's

a public interest story

and people are gonna want to see it live

and we are the only people capable of doing that.

I get that right? But, okay, hang on. We got this schedule.

Listen, I Understand that

We ran outta there. There's

Just no way I can give up the afternoon slot.

Okay? This is what we're gonna do. We're gonna swap.

So you're gonna take the three o'clock slot

and we're gonna take the noon time.

You really think It'll be done by then? Yeah.

The Germans are gonna have this taken care of in no time.

So we have a deal. Fine. Excellent.

A-B-C-O-C-B-S one.

Jeff, you there? Talk to me Mark.

I'm at the press center. Hans Klein got

word from the Olympic committee.

The games must go on.

They really think people Are gonna care

about sports today.

Good news is two Israelis escaped during the attack.

And hold on a sec.

They just confirmed the injured coach died.

Mo shot Weinberg shot twice in the head once in the gut.

Terrorists demanded Israel release over 200 Palestinian

prisoners by noon.

If not make to one hostage every hour.

Jesus Christ. Are they negotiating?

I don't know. So should I pass this along to Ro

Jeff? You have to

be the center of everything now.

Not just the control room.

All communication, everything. Jess.

Yeah, I got it. How? Communication. Everything.

A, b, c headquarters called. They want news to take over.

Tell 'em move. Hand, touch.

What the hell are you guys doing?

I'm gonna get a live shot of the apartment.

Get get the viewers right into the a. Who

Are the hostages?

Uh, uh, Bader.

Just, he confirmed that one of them died up. Marshall

Weinberg. I read the wire.

But who's inside that apartment?

We don't know yet. Then we find out who are they?

What's their background? Do they have a family?

There's no point in aiming this thing at the building if the

viewer doesn't know the people inside. Right room

Headquarters on the line.

Again. I can't hold 'em back any longer.

Right? Don't f**k it up Mason.

Okay, I got the bird live at noon. Alright,

Um, Marv, do we have any more information

on who the hostages are?

No. Mariana is on it. Yes, I'm on it.

Where are you? Editing room.

Okay, I'm coming to you. Great. Get this sucker outside.

Just fun. Scene guys in apartment.

I need to confirm this first. Mr. Beta, do you read me

Mariana? What have you got

My source at the BI told me there are 10 hostages.

Five coaches and five athletes.

Okay. Lines up with my info.

Also, we've been told the Palestinians attacked apartments

one and three after cross-referencing that

with the housing plans

and who slept where? I think Hey Jeff?

Yeah, I think we found a good spot

Coming. Get that

to me in the control room as soon as you're done.

So I'd say the five athletes being held, uh, Romano,

Slavin, Friedman, Berger and hin.

Wait, Berger. David Berg. Yes. Why?

You guys can go get it up there?

Yes. Almost done. Okay

Jeff, We have Daniels on the phone.

Come

Jennings, it's Jeff Mason.

You running things? Yeah. So where are you?

I'm on a balcony in the Italian compound.

It's a good spot jj. A direct view of 31.

And I'm not alone up here.

The other balconies are full of reporters and photographers.

All of us waiting for something to happen.

So what? Nothing's going on. No.

At least it's just milling around.

Doesn't seem like they've even started negotiating yet.

There's an eerie silence

to actually hear the cameras clicking.

Is it too small? Get those to Judy.

Three times bigger. Alright, um,

There's a report Mr.

Beta watched earlier that has an interview

with one of the hostages. David Bager, former

American.

Just move it at the apartment. The door on the second floor.

Balcony's opening. I want to appearing out

Jennings. What's happening?

Someone's on the balcony wearing some kind of a mask.

Now he's gone back in. Ben down there.

Caught it all in 16 mil.

I wish you could get the shot Mason.

No. Send a runner. No chance.

Police sealed off the entire area.

Only athletes could get passed.

Good Luck. Thanks.

Nice man. So we have loaded mags, sandwiches, walkies,

long lens cigarettes for Jennings.

So, uh, what if they searched me?

Don't worry. From now on you are

officially an athlete

Man stepping out of the apartment now.

White suit, white hat. Very ated black.

He must be the leader of the group is waving at the cameras.

Jeff. Police woman's walking up now all

by herself unarmed.

Looks like she's handling the negotiation.

Pin these up on there. He seems

to have a grenade in his hand.

God.

Jen, how close are you? A hundred, 130 feet.

Maybe you should get away from there.

Kill radius is only 16 feet. I've been in the Middle East.

Alright, but be careful. Gary's on his way.

We have someone on the tower.

One six

Tower Cam Reed.

Copy. Can you gimme an image?

Show me the entrance to the village.

Push in on that.

There go Gary.

Yes, He's in.

Hey, people get PR on the radio.

The police chief's making his first official statement.

Right now,

The perpetrators demand that 200 persons be released

who are in Israeli hands.

If these 200 persons are not released, they will shoot

one hostage every hour. Starting at noon.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Can you tell us something we don't know?

Someone's asking the chief

of police if he thinks it was a mistake

that the Olympic village had no armed police.

Of course it was. I guess they didn't want the world

to be reminded of the last time armed Germans patrol fences.

So German. His makeover is more

important than people's safety. But come on

This, this isn't our business.

That is our business. In less than an hour, we go live.

We're not giving this story to news, but

because we're in Munich, we're a hundred yards

away from where it's happening.

We're not giving it to anyone. Yeah, sports is keeping this.

That's it.

Now it looks like the negotiations are happening.

German politicians in the leader in the white suit are

talking whatever they're discussing.

Honestly, you can't imagine prime minister Golden Mirror

and the Knesset will respond in any way to blackmail.

So ironic, I've been a Middle East expert in Beirut

for five years, and yet I have never gotten this close

to the air of Israeli conflict.

Hang on one second. Peter, can we get his voice alive when

We go in here? I'll give it a shot.

Jennings, this is Bader.

Any idea how many Palestinians are inside?

You see a lot of heads popping out of windows.

These men are definitely professionals.

I suspect they're deliberately trying to gr confusion.

There's a second commando on the balcony.

Now brandishing is sub machine gun like a threat. F*****g

Arabs. What you,

my mother's from

Algeria talking about your mother.

Hey, just the bad Arabs.

Whatever conception you have of Arabia

or Arabs, you need to understand

how sensitive the situation is.

This is no longer the Olympics.

Thank you Peter for uh, clarifying.

And it does bring up a good question.

What should we call them on the air?

The news We would refer to them

as commando gorillas command.

That sounds like we're in Vietnam.

What should they call 'em on German radio

Terrorists.

What was that They used? Terrorists.

Okay, let's, let's go with that.

That's a charged term.

Terrorism is the organized

and systematic use of violence to get civilians

to affect a political goal.

Isn't that pretty much what's happening here?

Nobody knows yet what is happening here.

So we have to be very careful about

everything we say on air.

No offense guys, but you're sports.

You're way over your head. News should take over

Peter.

Just call us back in a couple of minutes.

He might be right. Okay.

Look, I know this isn't a responsibility

that everyone wants, but does it make more sense

to have a talking head from news takeover from halfway

across the f*****g world?

Our job is to tell the stories

of these individuals whose lives are at

stake a hundred yards away.

And our job is really straightforward.

We put the camera in the right place

and we follow the story as it unfolds in real time.

News can tell us what it all meant after it's over

and I'm sure they're gonna try.

But this is our story and we're keeping it.

Alright. You heard the boss. We have 45 minutes left.

Do we have an opener yet?

It's 50 and a two 50.

Alright, four fresh rolls. 50 day locate.

You

Ready? Ready.

That's our opener. We sign please.

Kev Two. That's good. But I need the balcony

to be at the very center of the shot. Charlie,

You got it. Cool. Break

Power cam. Get nice

and close on that roof. You gotta push it.

Yeah, keep going. There you go.

Okay. Talk me through.

Yeah, so you have a gym on cam one.

Cam two has a live shot of the balcony.

Tower cam is an aerial view

of the entire Olympic village and can zoom in.

And we got 60 millimeter footage on tape

machines three through six.

And we can now hear Jen's live on the air.

We also have an overview

of the hostages plus an interview with one of them.

David Berger. It's ready for playback.

Good work. Five minutes everyone.

Five minutes. Take your positions.

Tower cam. I want you to start

with an establishing pan over the

spectators and then push it.

I want to gut punch closeup of that terrorist.

Jeff, can you, can you turn it down a notch?

It's not track and field.

It's, they threatened to kill people

And noon deadline confirm.

Uh, yeah, What do I tell other cameras?

Well, what Do you Mean?

I mean, can we

show someone being shot on live television?

We can't control what happens.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

We're the only station going live with this,

which means everyone will be watching us,

including the hostages families.

Okay. Okay. It's a hallway.

All right, everyone stay on your headsets.

You don't want anybody to see their kid execute.

Tell So I, I don't know about the Israelis,

but David Berger's folks are in Ohio,

so I'm pretty sure they'll watch.

Well, someone should tell them not to watch it,

but we have a bigger responsibility here.

What about the sponsors?

The sponsor just are not gonna be concerned.

All they care about. Yes. We have two minutes viewers.

Okay. Yeah. So, so is, is that what we're trying

to achieve here is ratings?

No, we're just, we're following the

story wherever it

Takes Us. Right. Then

let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.

Black September, they know the

whole world is watching, right?

That's why they chose the Olympics.

If I'm saying if they shoot someone on live television,

wait, whose story is that?

Is it ours or is it theirs?

How about this? If things intense,

we only leave the 16 millimeter running.

That gives us plenty of time

to decide whether we air it or not.

Yeah. That's it.

That's it.

That's it. That's it. Thank You.

30 seconds to open. Okay, here we go,

Jim. Ready? Yet

We're last. Looks

speed.

Time check one, two. All Set.

Cam one tight on Jim, two on preview.

Tower cam statewide on building 31. Got it.

Gladys opening Title of five.

Clear the frame please. D seconds. Title one.

Ready for insert. Okay, people. And 10, 9, 8.

Roll. 2, 7, 6.

If things do get tense, go to the on gut reaction shots.

Right? Two one. We're on

Roll two.

Open. Title on five.

Ready? One, take one. Jim, you're on.

Good morning. I'm Jim McKay speaking

to you live at this moment from a b, C headquarters just

outside the Olympic Village in Munich, west Germany.

Two on preview, The piece

of would've been called the Serena Olympics was shattered

just before it dawn this morning about five o'clock 33 when

terrorists dis armed the submachine guns,

faces blackened, climbed the fence.

31 went to the headquarters of the Israeli team, Zo one,

and immediately killed one man.

Mosha Weinberg a coach.

Two shots in the head, one in the stomach.

They've been holding 14 others hostage since then.

And the latest re report is

that one more two has been killed.

Take two. Peter Jennings is

inside the village. Let's go to Peter now.

Jim, I'm directly across from the Israeli building.

It will be a famous number before law 31.

It is on con rasa.

The reports here vary dramatically as to what is going on.

Peter, do we already know

who is responsible for the attack?

There was a great deal of speculation.

One could indulge in which would be risky,

but if I were to guess,

I would most likely narrow in on a group

called Black September.

That however, is pure speculation.

Something that is not speculation is that one

of the hostages is David Berger.

26 years old, a former United States citizen.

We are told by the Israelis.

Moved there about two years ago.

He's in the late heavyweight class. Take one.

After receiving a law degree from Columbia University,

Berger failed to qualify for the US team

to fulfill his dream of the Olympics.

He immigrated to Israel two days ago.

He was interviewed by Peter Jennings

for an a b, C color piece.

That's what the Olympics are all about.

You know, we are here, we can talk to Germans,

chat with athletes from Lebanon.

This is what we've been dreaming about,

you know, not just sports.

Back to one clean.

I'm gonna get back to s Klines and wait for the latest

Bird caption on my key. And now,

Ladies and gentlemen, these dreams have been shattered

by this terrible, terrible attack.

The terrorists have demanded the release

of some 200 Arab girl prisoners in Israel in exchange

for the lives of Israeli athletes.

And they had set a deadline of noon, which saying

that they were going to kill all

of their hostages at that time.

That deadline obviously has passed, so nobody knows

what is gonna happen now.

Same is last time.

I can't believe she's the negotiator.

She doesn't strike me as the hard boiled type.

Well, if the terrorists underestimate her like you didn't,

she probably has a chance to get information.

Just look, she's asking him for a cigarette.

No, no, no. She's earning his trust.

I just wish I could hear what she's saying.

The Olympics at this moment are still continuing.

It's a very strange atmosphere.

As I said, we're only about 500

yards from this building here.

We'll take four within 200 yards of where that building is.

There's a kind of a manmade pond,

not a formal swimming pool,

but a very lovely pond with a little dock

where the athletes lie out and take sun.

And that's what they're doing right now.

They're out there sunning themselves, they're swimming,

talking about technique with athletes of other countries.

And yet this grim terrible thing is taking

place inside the village.

300 yards closer. Uh, well take a look at this right now.

This is a live picture action in boxing, going on

a crowded arena here at the box Hollow.

In the in in Munich.

Volley volleyball is also taking place

incidentally. Dwayne, Bob, I'll

Make sure we still have the bird. We're

Scheduled to fight at just about any time.

Is he talking about Don't we still have three?

We swap slots. The Arab nations that are here are

Sudan, Tanisha, Morocco, they're all here.

No word from them as yet.

Uh, no indication that there will be any statement.

Can we get a cup of coffee? Please

Agree.

You just sent with one person who can understand this.

Something's happening here.

And con it seems like they're bringing food.

Now, if you ask me, there's a policeman dressed as cooks.

Howard. Keep tracking them.

My half blind grandmother could tell these cooks are cops.

Bru again. NBC has that satellite at three. What's your

Suggestion? Change it.

That's my f*****g suggestion,

because they can't have this slide.

You guys will think of something I gotta keep going.

Looks like they're proving the food isn't poison.

Now the cooks seem eager to carry the food,

but the leader takes it from them.

Goes in alone. Whatever the Germans tried

to achieve here, it failed.

The long range forecast is said today. That high radiation

In the Italian apartment. Yeah.

Watching Channel 11, Israeli tv. Who is that?

Gimme Channel 11. Not

yet cleared situation.

I think that's Tu ky. He's one of the Israelis who escape.

Why don't we have him? Larry, run over to the lack.

Grab that guy. Bring him here. I'm on it.

And tell jj we're hungry.

I'm not German food, please. I

What's all that mean?

New ultimatum. 5:00 PM

And we're moving in now on the windows behind,

which at this moment, nine.

Terrified living human beings are being held prisoner.

The demands have been many.

There is someone right now, uh, that certainly has

to be one of the gorillas.

One of 'em is believed to be a woman.

And this has happened time and time and time again.

The door opening, the head coming out

to see what is going on.

Sure. Play that back in slow mode. Will you

We see the moment again here in slow motion.

It's been such a terribly tantalizing symbol

Of this Situation. Mass

Control wants a block of five. Now. What's going

On inside that head?

Jim? Commercial break in 10 seconds.

We are gonna take a very short station break at this

point, and hopefully when we get back, uh,

we have at least some answers for you. He's

Off the commercial And we're clear.

The Kodak back in three.

This is the camera and film.

See, it's on the competition

still the only ones providing live coverage. Yeah,

Like

my heart is very heavy today.

As an a athlete and as an Arab, I would like

to express my solidarity with my Israeli colleagues.

And I pray that everything ends well.

Excuse me, may I ask you if you have question?

Think he's scared in the village. Uh, no.

What is the discipline? Why you listen?

Any comment on the current situation? I, I go guys.

Guys, he's here.

30 Seconds.

Hey, Jim. S around.

So this is about as close

as you're gonna get to the hostages.

Make it count.

And

5, 4, 3, 2, 1,

Take one.

We're coming to you live from a b,

c headquarters in Munich, west Germany.

I'm sitting right now with a man

who's just come into the studio.

His name is Truvia Koski. He is on the extreme left here.

The gentleman in the middle is Naim Kdi

translator for the Israeli team.

Mr. Koski does not speak English.

He is the coach of the weightlifters

and came out of that room today.

Would you ask him just to tell us they wanna talk

to briefly what happened today?

Truvia Marco

At about four 30, uh, this morning I had, I was, uh,

fast asleep when I woke up. And,

Uh, Jeff, tell Jim more about to lose his satellite

While we're in the middle of the interview.

In a couple of seconds, all

anyone's gonna see is a black screen.

Have to tell him to say something.

Jim, Jim, CBS is taking the satellite. Look.

We can keep recording, but wrap the segment on.

I'm sorry. We've run out time.

We'd like to continue the interview on

tape and we'll have it later.

We are losing the satellite right now.

The Arab gorillas are still in the Israeli quarters.

One man is dead. Uh, Mr.

Codi tells me another man is now definitely dead,

but we don't know his identity as yet.

The tense battle goes on the deadline. Five o'clock.

That's in an hour and 45 minutes.

Jim McKay, as the Olympics continue in Munich, west Germany

Dissolved to five,

Five minutes. We're

in the middle of something. What are

We doing? What's

Going on? CBS insists

on this lot.

They say they're keeping it

unless we share the feed. Why can't

We share? When do we get it back? Well,

For What, when do we get it back?

I don't know When we could give it to CBS,

but we could show our logo in the stream.

What do you mean? Oh, I just put a BC up there.

Um, and just, just leave it there constantly in the top

Corner. What transmission

are you talking?

Well, it'd be output only.

So he just put his permanent superpose on it.

Yeah, do that. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Okay. So I'm gonna put on CBS

Logo. Ready on four.

Back on the bird.

Tell Jim to start the interview where we left off.

Take up the interview.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1,

Take one.

You want the store or no?

Well, he, he, he,

he hasn't got any real practical suggestions.

He feels that, uh, one should not give in, but, uh,

and he leaves the whole affair to in the hands

of the security people, the professionals.

On the other hand, he yearns for the moment that his friends

and all his colleagues, his, his athletes whom he had known

for so many years, family men will be out safely.

I can see the emotion that he's feeling.

It's very hot in this room.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate Mr.

Sikowski taking the time to tell this story

to us. Thank you too.

Thank you.

They're suspending the games visa.

The important thing right now is that the games

of the 20th Olympiad have now been officially suspended.

And as you can see from this footage

that has just reached us, the situation

outside the apartment is becoming increasingly confusing.

Sunshine As the police just gave

green light for some action.

Six.

Police are clearing all press outta the village.

What the police are clearing all press out of

The village. Where'd you hear that?

I've been listening to the police scan next door.

Jennings. Jennings.

You need to hide what the police are

clearing all the buildings.

Guys, check the tower. Come get back to the police scanner.

Get, get Jennings.

All good. They

Moved on. Okay, great.

It looks like the

police are about to make a move.

Can you get back to the balcony?

Yes. Give us a minute. Preview cam three.

Jim, check your preview.

We were told that there are men

with guns beginning to train those guns. Take

Tower Cam on the rooms

where the two heads were sticking out a moment ago

of the Arab gorilla lookouts

Tower cam. Push it.

I don't, I'm not sure these men have guns or, or cameras.

That that's a gun. All right, that's a gun. Yeah.

One man with binoculars, another with a gun.

Peter Peter Jennings is in the village.

Peter or Peter, can you see this going on?

They're walking cautiously on the roof.

Hopefully not being heard in the rooms below.

This is happening now, if you can possibly believe

that at the games of the 20th Olympiad

within a few hundred yards,

some athletes are still training on the running track.

Volleyball competition is going on. Look at this.

This is right now volleyball competition going

on in the Olympic Games.

As we said, the games have been interrupted,

but only at the conclusion of competition

that was going on when the announcement was made.

Now back to the now, back to the

real world, I guess you'd call it at this point.

Although this seems like the unreal one

Go bird caption.

I don't seem prepared at all. Yeah,

Yeah, you don't.

These cops have no idea what they're doing.

No wonder they lost the war.

But a shame that most people see this in black and white.

Not in America. Every bus driver has a color TV nowadays.

And the athletes here, Germans put a color

TV in every apartment.

So are they seeing what we're seeing?

Whatcha talking about?

Are the terrorists seeing this?

They aren't receiving a, B, C here.

Yes, they are inside the Olympic village.

Every athlete can access any international station.

Cam two pan a bit down.

Push in. That's a tv,

A, B, C

Bat. What's

going on? Off cameras off.

You do not point a gun at my crew. Jesus Christ.

All live cams off three. Charlie, that's you two.

Turn the tower cam off. Happy.

Hey, hey, hey. What's going on here?

They just took us off the air. Who's

In charge? This guy. You

in charge? Yeah. You speak English.

Get the f**k outta my studio.

Out, out

Operation.

The police are climbing down from the roof.

Now they seem to be calling off the attack.

Looks like this was yet another failed attempt

to get the situation under control.

Was that our fault?

Oh, let's just go to, we'll take a commercial. Okay.

Commercial break. Five minutes. Here we go.

Better? Can we talk

Then? They should have cut the

electricity to the apartment.

It's not up to us to double check on them.

Mark. It's not okay if we had it worse, you know that. We

Don't even know why they called it off.

The Germans seem generally pretty overwhelmed, right? They

Are. I'm

listening to the police radio.

It's local cops doing things they have never done before.

The German army gave them sniper rifles

and had to instruct them on how to use them.

Why doesn't the German army just do it itself?

They're not allowed to operate here. German constitution.

That's ridiculous. The rumor rumors Israel offered

to send a special unit to help him out

and the Germany refused it.

They are just making one mistake after another

and trying to act like they've got it all under control.

Let's keep going. Maryanne, I want you

with me in the control room.

Bring the radio. Okay,

Ladies And gentlemen, the Germans are back

to negotiating this time.

Interior minister Gen is joining them.

The The leader only seems willing to talk to Ken.

Wait, wait. Put me live. Put me live.

What Will happen next? Jim?

Peter has some breaking info. We're going to, um,

I just got word that something is happening at

Connell Esa. Peter, you have news.

Thanks Jim. Yes.

Moments ago a window opened

and for the first time, now we're seeing

some of the hostages.

No, we're not. Might as well be listening

to the f*****g radio cam two tower.

Either you have an angle on this clear

Shot, me Clear crystal.

And also how many terrorists are visible.

We've seen two hostages so far.

They were led to the window. One after the other.

One gorilla with an AK 47 behind him.

This is ridiculous. It's a terrible suck.

Uh, that sounds very dramatic.

Peter, ladies and gentlemen.

Um, we're sorry that we can't show you a

Live. Yeah. Jeff, turn the camera's

Back on. You got it, Ruth.

Alright, we're back in business.

All cam's back on

Cam two. Back on

cam three. Back on.

Anyone know who that is? The

Fencing court.

Andre Spitzer. 27 years old.

Gladys, I'm gonna need you to make a caption.

Andre Spitzer

Caption ready.

Insert Spitzer graphic.

It looks like Spitzer wants to tell Cher something.

Now he's dragged away from the window

and the curtains are closed again.

Cher is talking to the leader. He seems furious.

What is she saying?

Ter offered to to swap himself with the Israeli hostages,

but the terrorists refused the offer.

Um, ter insists on going inside to see how the hostages are

The leaders taking Ganter

and another official into the apartment.

Now,

As someone asked, um, if they already know the destination

for the flight, flight,

Flight flight,

There's talk of flying them out of the country.

Well, where could they fly? What

Everyone shut up. Please.

Shut up. They're giving orders.

The the police woman tell, tell the leader

that it takes time to prepare the plane.

They mentioned two helicopters to fly the hostages

and the terrorists to the airport.

What airport? They didn't say

They're coming back out.

Ken. She seemed shocked.

God only knows what horrors he saw in there.

Uh, Kyle. They, they said Kyle has a destination.

Okay, listen up. We need to find out

where in the village these choppers can land

and what airport they're gonna go to

for the transfer. The sun is

Beginning to sink behind the buildings.

There's some way from darkness yet, but they can't help

but think what a difficult task this would be if the

commandos got out in the Olympic village after

Dark. Got it.

Yeah. Green's the obvious choice, but probably not.

It's too much air traffic. Ox Oxford.

It's too far away that they just mentioned a,

a flight time of five to seven minutes.

Uh, with the helicopters. What

Was the name of that little airport in the middle

of nowhere where, where we picked

up the equipment that time?

Um, it was something felt first.

First of Fen Brook first. Yeah,

That was, that was the military airport

First and felt book.

That makes sense. No one's out there.

Oh guys, did you hear that?

What's Going on? We have eyes on these choppers.

Come on, show me something.

Howard, do you have eyes on the choppers?

Negative Guys, I'm blind here. Come on gentlemen.

Can you read these? Yeah.

Howard, we've got you loud and clear. I

See them two choppers approaching from Southeast

Howard. We

Exactly. Are you, are you inside the village planes?

Yes. I'm at Gate six.

They let me in after the boxing match. Ran into Gary here.

I'm taking over his channel

And they're talking about a bus now.

A bus escorting them to the helicopters.

Howard, are the police clearing out the area?

No, it's packed. There are people with cameras everywhere.

It's like Elvis has landed.

They'll use the um, parking level below the apartments.

Um, there's the next staircase. But building 12

Howard, look behind you. Do you see a staircase?

Uh, yeah. Okay. Go down it and look for a bus.

Got it. Light in the hallway's on.

Looks like they're leaving the apartment

using the inner staircase.

I'm in the parking area

and it's a complete madhouse down there.

Police and press are everywhere.

There's men with cameras next to men with guns.

Put him on the air. There's No connect.

Olympic team and officials. Hash this mic

Through to the air. Get him on the air.

Uh, yep. You got it?

Yep. Yeah. Uh, Jim, Pete,

I'm just looping Howard in here.

Good go. Howard,

we're putting you live on the air with Jim and Peter.

Word is they're flying out both the

hostages and the terrorists.

Let's hear Peter Jennings on this.

Thank you Jim. My colleagues

and I are scrambling to put the pieces together,

but Howard Cosell is currently on location.

Howard, this is Peter.

Do you have something to report from there?

Howard, go ahead. I certainly do. Peter.

I'm in the parking garage.

Terrorists and hostages are arriving.

Their hands tied together.

The police are here in almost platoon like numbers.

We're building up to what I think will be quite the climax.

Okay. The bus just came in.

They're bringing the hostages to the bus.

The terrorists have submachine guns pushing the

young athletes onto the bus.

According to unconfirmed reports, Cairo was named

as the flight destination.

There are helicopters waiting to bring the hostages, um,

and the terrorists to a military airport

for the changeover. Hey bridge. This

Is tower. I have ice on

the bus.

Jim, I just ran onto the bridge. I can see them.

One Arab is getting out.

Flashes from the cameras are hitting him

from every direction.

He almost looks like a rock star walking on stage.

Now I can see the Israelis.

I hear something people shouting from the windows

and balconies, but I don't know what it is.

It's shalom. The Hebrew word for peace.

The propellers are turning and the chopper is lifting off.

These Israeli athletes are leaving the Olympic Village not

as free and proud competitors of their country,

but as victims of a brutal act of terror.

The first helicopter now proceeding out over the main

Olympic stadium flying

around this tremendously high Olympic tower flying to

what seems like the last chapter of the nerve wracking day.

Stretch the show with sports

until wave news from the airport.

Sports. Yeah. General smooth over the transitions.

The time being.

Screw it. I want to see to how many hours.

Jack, get right back here. Come

Minutes. It's

Carter. Grab the 16

millimeter. Get footage from the airport.

You're gonna go with him. Take my car.

You're the only one who speaks German.

Okay. Was it parked back? Left blue. MW. Okay.

Are they gonna really fly him out? I don't dunno.

So that how the said in a shootout, we owe it

To the athletes and their great perform.

We need sound. Hank

The 10,000 meter run was nearing the halfway mark.

And out in front was Dave Bedford of England, followed

by a little est gifter of Ethiopia

and Mariano Harrow, Spain back in the pack.

Musty bien in the dark jersey. Hey guys,

Don't think there's anything left to do here.

So how about I just come back to the studio, provide some

Analysis. It's a great idea, Jenny,

to

get back here as soon as you can.

Charlie, you might as well

roll cam two back into the studio.

Jeff, Jeff, you're gonna wanna see this.

I think it's David Berger's father, have you

Gotten any help from any of the governments

or any of the agencies?

No. All the information we have has come from

the news television.

I just hope they get the situation under control

and we hear from our son soon.

Is there anything you wanna say to his son right now?

Maryanne, you read me. I just

Want him to come Home.

It, they're too far away.

Toughest competition. Mar, you got anything?

Hold on just a Second.

Supposedly all hell's broken loose at the airport

Coming up. They're

shooting. What happened?

Oh God.

Carter,

It's crazy out there.

Massing traffic jams. Hundreds of people walking roads.

The police couldn't even get through their tanks. Hey.

Yeah.

You see those lights? That's the airport.

Everyone just left out cars behind and walked there.

How do you get back here Man?

To convince some God to lend us is here they are.

This is great stuff. Car. We gotta get more of this. Okay.

This is useless there. I saw some payphones.

We'll call as soon as there's any news.

How many more clips in the package? Uh, two.

About 10 seconds. Okay, ready?

One, take one

With me now is Peter Jennings, who reported the whole day

for us directly out of the village.

Standby Peter. Peter, what

Conclusions do you draw from these recordings?

Clearly the German authorities will end it

here and now Jim.

But now they have to improvise us

and so far they haven't proven themselves to be very good at

That. There's no

further reports at this moment.

Maria Ann's on the phone. You know the head of the

Olympic court. Hatch it through.

Yeah.

Can the footage Be used?

Yeah. Yeah. We're watching it right now.

We haven't on the air. Why? Listen, there

Is a rumor going around here that the hostages

Are free. What?

The Hostages are free.

That's amazing news.

That's, hold on everybody listen to this man.

Say what you just said to me

For the last hour. We've

been hearing gunshots a few minutes ago.

The shooting suddenly stopped.

Then a man from Hans Klein's office came up from the airport

and said, the hostages are all free.

Is this confirmed? I don't know, Jeff.

People here are celebrating. Everyone is

Hello. Check

The Germans. ZDF.

Now I don't know what they're saying, but they

Sound Turn that off. Turn

that off. Right there. I have to go.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Stay on the line.

I need you to translate something for me. Okay.

Translate this.

He says it too. They're all free. I know.

ZDF is saying that they're all free.

Then have Jim Announce it.

Yeah, I'm gonna check with Marv.

Okay, hold on, Marv.

Yeah, we're watching it. It does it confirm?

Not yet. I see clients press stop on the phone.

See if they have serious doubts. Don't air it yet.

Wait for the confirmation.

Marv says that it's not confirmed yet.

Then we have Jim use the phrase as we are hearing

Terribly long day. We're coming up on.

Look, Marv, we're gonna go with it.

Uh, well we're gonna use the phrase as we're hearing.

Where's room? Lemme talk to him. Jeff.

Don't air it. We need two confirmed sources.

Marv. We have to go now,

If we air it, then everybody else will.

So what We let CBS or NBC take the scoop. This isn't

The competition.

Wait for confirmation

Was what would you advise Jeff?

Do you read?

And, uh, he almost cried his eyes filled with tears.

I cannot say to these

Jim, not face us and fight

Us. We, we were getting

good news.

Sounds like all the hostages are free

And Yet, but we need to use the phrase

as we are hearing they're

Alive. And

uh, as we are hearing now, it appears

that the Germans were able to free all hostages.

But we don't know just yet what exactly happened there.

Everybody's reporting it now. They're all just following our

Lead. Well then it's good. We got

it out there first. Oh

Yeah. You know, Klein can't

even find the guy

at the fence who broke this.

We're talking worldwide news based on the word

of one mysterious man. No one's been.

Oh, come on. Ru wanted me to give out. No,

No, no, no. Jeff. Jeff. No.

You pulled the trigger.

Not ru, it's on ZDF Marvin.

That's German state television. And this is a

B, c. After

the hostages were taken by

and I vouched for you, Jeff.

I vouched for you to a helicopter elsewhere.

We never said it was a fact. We, we used as we are here.

Yeah. And that's a f*****g technicality.

Jeff Miles from uni when the,

Jeff, I think what happens here,

here in the next few minutes

or hours may have a large effect on that.

So all we can do is wait as you do.

It's official. They're free.

He's here.

Mark. Yeah. Forget

Until Monday if the organiz

Cheers.

Cheers. Good work everyone. Cheers. Good job everyone.

Cheers. We're not done yet though.

We need access to the cops of the airfield.

I'm talking interviews

behind the scenes, anything like that.

And maybe we can even talk to the hostages.

What he said that we had made broadcast history.

Probably more people have seen this than watch

Armstrong land on the moon

Airplane.

So you're gonna get a big bonus, honey. A f*****g drink.

You Yeah. Oh yeah. Mason on deck.

Yeah. Heck, that's good, right? Yeah.

Since they, uh, left the building, it was also a fight.

Inside. Now in our studio

is Chancellor Branch's best Secretary Conrad ERs. It's an

Honor. S is here.

Was it agreed. Do you know, to allow the gorillas

to go from the building to the helicopters?

Well, just two hours ago.

But of course that was part of the game.

We never meant to let them go free out of this country.

I'm very glad that as far as we can see now,

this police action was successful as far as we can see.

It's an unfortunate interruption of the Olympic games.

But I mean, if all that comes out

as we hope it will come out as we hope.

I think it will be forgotten after a few weeks.

And if the reports as we hear them are true,

the games will continue probably by tomorrow after.

Well, I'm quite sure,

and you must understand that for us Germans, it was a tragic

situation that all this happened to Jewish people.

You know, after all our past, of course, it was our main,

our main idea to get these Israelis free.

Otherwise, you know, some

of the old memories might have come back. It

Doesn't sound right. Well,

I think the people of the world are well aware

that those can use your phone.

Were trying to free the Israelis today. Ajour. Yes.

I hope that they will. Don't forget that.

They won't forget it. Thank

You very much Mr. Secretary.

Appreciate you taking the

time to talk to us. Thank you.

And we clear any word from the airport? Please?

Can't get through. Same here. I don't hold for 20 minutes.

How about the hostages? Don't you

think we should give them a breach?

Maybe. Guys, what about the bus drivers? Helicopter pilots.

Come on. We gotta get creative here.

We have a story to tell.

Let me talk to Hans. Why can't I?

What do you mean what? Conrad Olives just announced it on

live television in our studio.

Wait, wait. What did you say?

There's still shooting going on at the airport.

We're still shooting at the airport. What? We were wrong.

They're still shooting at the airport.

Jim has to go on there and say something.

I know it wasn't true 'cause I got a f*****g TV set too.

Just tell me what happened. Jim. Peter,

Listen, this is gonna be tough.

Oh, that's why I'm asking you. I'm asking you as a friend.

Please just tell me what happened.

The latest word we get from the airport is that quote, all

of hell is broken loose out there.

That there is still shooting going on.

That there, there's a report of a burning helicopter.

But all seems to be confusion. Nothing is nailed down.

We have no idea what has happened to the hostages.

One of the men, by the way, was a hostage as far

as we know, is still alive.

It's David Berger who went to Columbia University.

Chris, uh, he was the only American one member

of the Israeli team that was being held captive.

Uh, he was a weightlifter.

Moved to Israel just about two years ago.

Well, we'll keep you up to date.

What happened?

All of them.

What if this is just a rumor,

but I mean, we don't What did they say?

They said that there were gunshots.

Did they? Kle heard it from three separate sources.

It's over.

It's b******t. We still have a team out there.

They haven't even called us yet.

We, we have to do something.

We'll send another team out there.

I'll go with them this time. And we have to get this right.

This is our chance to get it right. Ru come on.

Jeff. Miami's on the phone.

I,

Yeah.

Okay. I think

and one close on Jim.

Yeah, only Jim

General. The

So many. Um,

are people

ready?

One, take one.

I just gotten the final word.

You know, when I was a kid, my father used to say,

our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized.

Our worst fears have been realized tonight.

They've now said that there were 11 hostages.

Two were killed in their rooms.

This mor yesterday morning, nine

were killed at the airport.

Tonight they're all gone,

but it's all over the Israeli Olympic team is

destroyed much of it.

But what will happen to the games of the 20th Olympiad?

None of us know what will happen to

the course of world history.

We don't know.

Okay. You all right?

Uh mm. No.

Um, innocent people died in Germany again,

and we failed Germany.

Failed

Marianne, I'm sorry I sent you out there.

I can only imagine the things you saw.

Uh, I saw nothing. I I was there with hundreds of people.

We stared into the night.

We were waiting for something to happen

because we wanted to take a picture of it.

Uh, Jeff room

It like a word.

See you tomorrow. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Hang on one second. It's gonna be a

commemoration at the stadium tomorrow.

10:00 AM I got us the bird.

Jim and Jennings are gonna anchor,

and I want you to be in charge.

I know it might not feel like it,

but you did a hell of a job today.

I, it was a catastrophe.

Get some rest. Run.

We need to talk about a one hour special for tomorrow. Okay?

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We take a flash unit out to the airport.

Helicopters will still be there. We'll see them in daylight.

What's left?

All right. Well, they've seen the movie now, guys,

and, uh, they're probably shaking it off right now.

Congratulations again on, on this achievement,

and there's so many things to talk about with it.

But, uh, let me just start with you, Tim.

You're the director, obviously, and co-writer.

And how did this idea come about?

Because we've seen so many things on this subject, um,

you know, before Oscar winning documentaries, Munich, uh,

Steven Spielberg's film from different points of view.

But what was it about this that made the time right

to tell this particular story?

Uh, yes. I'm very glad to answer that.

Uh, first I want to take a moment to maybe, um, know

that maybe a lot of people from LA are also watching

to acknowledge the situation there.

And, uh, we see it here from, even see it from the outside.

It's so, um, devastating.

So I can only imagine what it means if you live in the city

and you know, many people that are affected by this fire

and, and this tragedy, um, since I, I've been a child,

like Hollywood is like the dream right?

Of, of my, of as a filmmaker.

But I've never got to know the city really well.

But now, I, I, with this touring with the film, I met

so many people and I realized why this is the mecca

of cinema because there are

so many passionate people about the arts of cinema.

And so it's, yeah.

And to see that now that stabbing the heart of that city,

it's, it's, uh, devastating.

Well, thank you for that.

And yeah, everybody is affected, but they're resilient

and, uh, we're gonna get through it.

Uh, you know, this happens all over the world.

These, these human events that are just

so extraordinary and to watch yes.

People, you know, come to things where they weren't prepared

for this and then really go into action is what this Yes.

This movie really shows, which must have been

what intrigued you about doing it.

Absolutely. I mean, I first came in touch

with the subject when watching, um,

Kevin McDonald's wonderful documentary that I'm sure you,

you've seen, um, uh, one day in September, um,

that I saw as a teenager still when I was in my hometown in

Basel cinema, in the cinema was actually produced by a bar.

So producer Arthur Cohen.

And then I studied in Munich and the Munich even. Yeah.

The stories differently present, I would say.

And I was always interested in that subject.

And then the 50th anniversary actually was coming closer.

We were starting to worry, uh, talking about it in 2022.

And after my two first movies, I finally felt ready to start

to think about doing something about that day

because I was always interested in it.

Me and Moritz and the producers, we started to quite broadly

research on what happened on that day,

and then learned more and more what we didn't know

before, what an important role the media actually played on

that day, and that it was a turning point in media history.

And then the all deciding moment was a conversation

that we had with Jeffrey Mason, that's the character played

by John Magaro in the movie you just saw.

Um, and yeah, Moritz and I had, uh,

and the producers were also involved.

We had a very creative team of producers, um,

in a Zoom call, just like this one.

Um, and thought like, it's gonna be like we, we were glad

to find an eyewitness, talk to him,

what happened a little bit.

I thought this will be like a 10, 20 minute zoom call.

And it was like a two hours almost zoom call or so.

And afterwards, it was really interesting to listen

what they experienced and what challenges they, they faced.

We learned so many new things, for example,

that the police came in the studio, into the studio,

something that we didn't know

and tell them to out off the cameras.

And that was the first time that we then thought like, okay,

you know what, maybe it would be interesting

to tell the story entirely from that perspective.

Yeah. And, and so well done, Moritz.

Let me ask you about that.

Since you, you researched it all

and found your way into a story that, you know,

people may see September five and just see brief things.

Oh, it's about the Munich Olympics and that,

and think they've seen it.

That the key thing for me,

and now that this group that we're talking

to here has just seen the film, no, that's not true.

We have not seen this story ever.

This, yeah, that was exactly my feeling too, when we, uh,

first talked to Jeffrey Mason,

because, you know, he, uh, he talked us

through his 22 hours in, in a way that I've never heard

before, like, like this, this, this rush on that day,

the questions that they came up that day.

And we immediately had the feeling we're,

we are hearing this story for the first time.

And we were so, like, research wise, we were so lucky

because it was such a life changing day that day

for everybody involved.

So there were a lot of people writing about that day,

like in biographies or scientific papers.

So the research material was very rich and very detailed,

and we found so many aspects in there that we thought

that were never been before.

It was a life changing thing, not just for those involved,

uh, there, but for the news business.

This was the first time really you saw a live event going

out globally like that in real time.

This was a monumental turning point for television. Yeah.

I, I wanna add, yeah, even

before the tragedy happened, the Munich games were that

because it was the first Olympics on turmoil, uh, uh,

since 36, which was misuse for fascist propaganda,

and they had a new mission, Germany, they wanted

to send out this, this image of the new liberal

post-war Germany, actually in our film.

That, that, that, that state of mind is represented

by the character of Leoni Banish.

And for that, they had set up cameras everywhere,

and it was also the first broadcast, uh, uh,

Olympic broadcast that could go globally to, they were live,

uh, satellite broadcast before,

but not globally, where it has been perceived by

so many countries.

And the, the venues were designed for optimal TV coverage,

and then that whole apparatus had to make that switch

Just extraordinary.

And to see what you've done, I wanna ask Hans Jork,

who is the film editor here, who did an extraordinary job

and has received many awards already on it, um,

had a real interesting task here, not just to cut

what you shot, but all this archival footage.

Jim McKay is not played by an actor.

Jim McKay is played by Jim McKay, essentially here,

and you're merging all of this.

Talk about the challenges on sjo of this particular film

and all those moving parts of it.

Yeah, the, uh, um, the challenge, uh, was the, the

sheer abundance of footage we had.

They, they shot a lot of footage.

Plus, as you mentioned it, uh, we had all

that archival footage, uh,

and we had to bring that together.

The footage was shot, like, like, uh, news, uh,

reporters team would shoot.

Um, and, uh, we mixed it with the archive archival footage.

And, uh, talking about Jim McKay, we, uh, uh,

ba basically we treated him as a, as a, a character in,

in our film, like as an, as an actor.

Uh, the, the only difference was that, uh, we,

we didn't have different takes from him

because we just had the original broadcast tapes, uh, and,

and not, uh, all the cameras,

but just what went out that day.

So, uh, they frequently cut away from him,

so we didn't have everything on him.

Uh, we had to build the cut around it,

but it, it worked out pretty well

because it, it was also, uh, an integral part

of the script already.

So we knew, uh, what, what we could use, what we had.

The only challenge, uh, uh, uh, for, for, for that point was

that we weren't sure to get the rights

until two weeks prior to shooting.

Wow. So we were lucky, uh, to, to, uh,

got that secured.

Oh my God. A producer's nightmare. Moritz, I imagine here.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, but, but, uh, we always, I mean,

we talked always about a plan B, but,

but I think we never had a plan B

because we, we were, so we really wanted to have like,

the original footage, because Tim

and I always say like, the best lines in the script

weren't written by us.

It was just Jimmy Kay reacting in that situation, in

that moment, um, like he does.

And it was so extraordinary what he did that day.

So we really wanted to get that original footage

included into the, the script and then the, the film.

Yeah. And it, it, it adds a lot of, um,

authenticity to the film.

Um, which, uh, if if we had to reenact it, uh, him with,

with an actor, it, it would've taken away a lot of that.

So we were very, very, uh, lucky to, to, uh, get the rights.

Yeah. I think that's why this film has gotten such

attention because it, of your approach to doing it,

it isn't just a recreation and something like that.

We feel like we're there.

Um, the audience, it, it's a unique talent.

I know it's not easy, um, to do that, to do

that on a real event,

but also to make it play like a suspense thriller.

I was on the edge of my seat watching this movie.

Yeah. That, that was our ultimate goal.

Uh, but, but I, I must say, as the editor, the, the, uh,

script was a, a page turner already.

And, and my biggest fear was, uh, that, that I won't be able

to translate that into, to the, uh, final film.

Uh, but apparently, uh, uh, it, it worked out.

And we spent a lot of time getting that, uh, that

nail biting, clock ticking feeling.

Right. But we also, uh, spend a lot

of time in getting the emotional beats of the story.

Right. And, and that, that was equally a challenge.

Jeffrey Mason actually something he said, set the tone

for us as the writers on how the script should feel,

that it should have that feeling of a rush

that they were also in.

And the reflection only comes afterwards.

That's how Deformation told us how it felt for them.

And also, we didn't want to have any personal arcs

or stories too much distracting for that.

We wanted it to make it very much a movie

or a script about people in their professional environment.

Yeah. And Jeffrey Mason obviously is still alive.

Uh, many of them aren't.

Roone Arledge and other key figures here

that Roone Arledge have played, uh, really brilliantly

by Peter sars Garden

and Jeffrey by John Magaro, who's just so good in this role.

And I've just started to notice

that he's in every movie I'm seeing lately.

Uh, but you know, this movie really, all

of a sudden I go like, wow.

He, he's been hiding in plain sight as a major actor.

Yeah. Also, what he did, I think like,

because we together went to many control rooms of sport,

of sports broadcasts today in New York, for example,

we observed, um, for example, uh, basketball games

or so that they broadcast just to see how the dynamics are.

And I think you can tell that John study it.

I mean, I even observed that, you know,

that these directors in these rooms,

they have a very special way of

behaving almost like a conductor with their pens

to the monitor wall.

And he studied that.

And I think I, I, I really, yeah,

when I see the performance, I can tell

that this is the real, this feels real

because he saw these people in their environment.

Some of the background actors are actually then people from,

from these rooms that we did then end up casting for,

for background, because Oh, is that right?

Wow. In the background. Should have been, yes.

And from from Germany though, uh, from Ger, I also went to,

uh, German control rooms.

And it's just, they have this very specific behavior.

And at the same time, they could also help us always observe

if everything is more or less accurate.

Even though technology has changed, it's still the same

how they did the basic structures.

I also wanna compliment you on the fact

that you use subtitles in this.

The Germans are German.

The, they're speaking German Leone's, uh, character is, is

so real as a key person for this group, uh,

of television professionals that she has to really interpret

so much for them 'cause they don't speak the language.

I thought that was interesting, that choice.

'cause so many movies in the past, you know,

they all speak English or something and it wouldn't work.

But the way this was done, was

that always the way it was gonna be more, it's, uh,

the way you approach this?

Yeah, I think that was a crucial thing that day that they,

uh, like, I mean the, the, the character of, uh,

Mariani Gipa is based on many characters that they, so, um,

there were like, um, translators like her that helped out,

but there, there, I think the a, BC crew crew,

they grabbed almost every German they could grab that day.

They even grabbed like, uh, Ish's driver to,

to do some translations or getting the info.

So she's like a combination of all the, those characters,

because it's about information.

It's about getting something done that was never done

before while doing it.

And, um, I think that that was like a very interesting part,

or a very interesting aspect that we told in her character.

And the other interesting aspect we really wanted

to show is this, this high hope

of a new generation in Germany that puts so much hope in

that new serene games and that image.

And we're so eager, like Tim said, to show a new,

a new liberal phase of Germany to the world.

And then seeing that getting, like shattered that day

and the whole Serene games.

And we really wanted to tell that as well.

I kind of channel channeled my parents in,

in Mariani gi part and, and their generation,

because I was born in Munich.

And so yeah, that was, I think, a very complex character,

but Leoni then brought her to life so

that she feels like a human being.

Yeah. And, and this, you being German

and writing this story

and everything, it meant a lot to you.

That meant a, a great deal to me. Yeah.

Because, because, um, as someone being born in Munich, uh,

this story was around for like always in, in my family.

My parents attended the, the games as,

as just as spectators.

But, but, uh, yeah, it's, um,

I think it's a very important story.

But the, the role

of the media brings another layer in that story.

And the interesting thing is that all those questions

that they ask themselves that day, the journalists are now

in some way, like questions we all have

to ask ourselves when we have like a

smartphone and social media.

Uh, suddenly it's, it's questions for everybody now.

Yeah. It, it is.

And you know, it's getting this, that's what also makes this

so pertinent the way we are seeing media now

and misinformation

and that snap judgment of what you have to tell, uh,

that goes out, that people are going to believe.

And it's gotten, it's gone downhill, quite frankly,

you know, from the standards that we used to see here.

And, uh, this movie is a, is a lesson

in showing the importance of that, uh, going, going through.

And also, I loved Hans Jorg.

I gotta ask you, all the equipment, everything

that was recreated here in this thing is authentic as well,

right down to the editing machines and everything. Yeah,

Yeah. It, it is

like our, our production designer, uh,

Julian Wagner collected every literary, everything Tim can,

uh, uh, know, knows it better For me, myself,

it was a travel back in time

because the, the flatbed editing table you see in the film,

uh, uh, what was still in,

in function in the early nineties when I started

as, as an editor.

And, and I even cut my first four films on

a machine like that.

So I was very familiar with, with the way it,

it it was working and I,

I could help the actors a little bit or,

or what I saw on the footage.

I, I, uh, I pretty much, uh, knew very well how

to put it together, uh, that it actually was working.

That is hilarious. And

so it's like a nostalgic, uh, editing.

Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

I also, in, in film school, still had to edit my,

the first film on, on Steam Beck.

And I wanna add Pete to what you just said about, about

how our movie might be a lesson.

I think in a way, our movie is also very much about

how technology has an influence on the media

and what we are experienced right now.

We don't even know now. Everything is getting fast.

And as you said, every everyone has a, a TV

and a camera in their pocket,

and we don't even know yet what that means.

And we wanted to show

how back then also technology had an influence

and on, on how a world event was perceived.

Mm-hmm. And it's, it's all also like, like a,

a structural element of, of the story.

Like the, the fact that they, they are waiting

for the pictures.

And we, we have so much talking about the events

before they are actually be able, uh, are able

to show the first, uh, 16 millimeter footage

because that has, has to be brought into the studio.

It has to be developed.

Uh, uh, and, and,

and then they, they were able to, to, uh, show it.

And, and we use that as a, a structural element,

uh, to the film.

And when we, uh, show the, uh, the first image of the Mask,

man, uh, it's the first time we, we, we show the

archival footage on in full screen to, to give that impact.

And it's so loaded, uh, at, at the time, uh,

of the movie then.

So. Amazing. Well, thank you so much for, uh,

sharing the Secrets of the making of September five

and best of luck as it now opens wide all over the country

here in the world, uh,

everyone's getting a chance to see it.

And we are so happy that we got a chance, uh,

tonight on the Deadline Virtual screening series.

Thanks guys. Pete,

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much. Thanks.