The film 'September 5' depicts the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, focusing on the ABC News team's coverage of the tragedy. The narrative captures the tense atmosphere and the dedication of Roone Arledge, the legendary ABC broadcaster, who insisted on maintaining his team's coverage despite pressure from network executives.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.The Germans had dubbed them the “Happy Games”. The Munich Olympics of 1972 – the first Olympics on German soil since 1936, when the Nazi government turned them into a vehicle for racist propaganda – were supposed to be a window on to a transformed, liberal Germany.
Arledge was a legendary broadcaster, says Sarsgaard, who changed television news forever. He is credited with inventing the celebrity anchor, who would take viewers inside the story. His Olympic reports turned athletes into personalities, telling their stories and interviewing their families. But in the midst of apocalypse, real people do focus on small stuff. The only way to deal with the fact people are being picked off by gunmen is to concentrate on how to record an interview on a dial-up phone you can hardly hear: to do your job. The film was made in the same spirit. They were shooting on a sound stage, but Fehlbaum felt it had to be made in Munich, as close as possible to the Olympic site, in a room that was a replica of the cramped studio.
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