One day in September
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | One day in September |
| Original title | One day in September |
| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany , United Kingdom |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kevin Macdonald |
| production |
Arthur Cohn , John Battsek |
| music | Alex Heffes |
| camera |
Neve Cunningham , Alwin Küchler |
| cut | Justine Wright |
One Day in September is a documentary of the BBC from the year 1999 , which the events of the Munich Massacre retraces 1972 in which a Palestinian terrorist command during the Summer Olympics of 1972 eleven athletes of the Israeli team as hostages took and killed later.
The documentary won an Oscar for best documentary in 2000. According to director Kevin Macdonald, the book of the same name by Simon Reeve reproduces the content that could not be accommodated in the film.
content
Documentation is solely based on original recordings and interview recordings. The film begins with a commercial for the Munich tourist office , and then leads on to interviews with the relatives of the Israeli athletes. In the further course, various observers and those responsible have their say, including Ulrich Wegener , the founder of GSG 9 .
The hostage-taking itself is examined from the perspective of various contemporary witnesses, including those from the German security team at the time. In particular, the failures of the German security forces are shown, who refused the help of Israeli anti-terrorism experts and wanted to end the hostage-taking themselves, which then ended catastrophically.
At the end of the film, reference is made to the hijacking of the Lufthansa plane in Kiel to Zagreb , with which the three arrested terrorists were released on October 29 of the same year. Based on the testimony of one of the Palestinian aircraft hijackers (not documented in the film), the LH 615 affair is portrayed as a “plot” that the German government is said to have “organized” in “secret agreement” with the Palestinians to prevent future terrorist attacks on German soil as well as the legal proceedings against the terrorists, in which operational deficiencies in the counter-terrorism would have become known. Ulrich Wegener suspects that this interpretation of the events is true. Hans-Jochen Vogel insinuates without further explanation that the then Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt had no alternative to an undercover operation .
background
Felicitas Stark, Monica Maurer, Felix Moeller and Lin McConnell as well as the Palestinian journalist Khalil Abed Rabbo were involved in the making of the film as researchers. The numerous interviews conducted for the film were edited by Gillian Dodders.
The film was first broadcast on German free TV on August 31, 2000 from 8.15 p.m. on ARD .
People who have their say
Actor Michael Douglas acts as the narrator of the film, in the German language version Otto Sander gives the accompanying commentary.
The film contains the first interview conducted by a western journalist with Jamal Al-Gashey , the only hostage-taker in Munich who has survived Operation Wrath of God , the Israeli retaliation against the terrorists, to this day.
The following also have their say:
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher , then Interior Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Ankie Spitzer, widow of the murdered Israeli fencing trainer André Spitzer
- Anouk Spitzer, daughter of André and Ankie Spitzer, who never met her father
- Ulrich Wegener , at the time the BGS liaison officer at the Federal Ministry of the Interior , then founding commander of the anti-terrorist unit GSG 9
- Zvi Zamir , then director of the Mossad
- Representative of the International Olympic Committee
- Surviving members of the Israeli Olympic team
- Hans-Jochen Vogel , Mayor of Munich during the successful Olympic application, was already a member of the German Bundestag at the time of the attack
Awards
The film won the Oscar for Best Documentary and the Golden Camera in the Film - International category in 2000 .
He has also received two British Independent Film Awards: the Douglas Hickox Award went to director Kevin Macdonald, and Justine Wright, who was responsible for editing, was honored as the best newcomer.
In addition, One Day in September was nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the International Documentary Association , the European Film Awards , the Online Film Critics Society Awards and the Satellite Awards .
criticism
Roger Ebert praised the film as "exciting", but criticized the inappropriate use of film material from Hitler's Germany as well as tasteless film montages of corpse pictures and rock music ( Child in Time by Deep Purple is used here). He also believes that the question should have been asked why the Palestinians committed the hostage-taking. He disagreed with the main points of the film and complained that the film won an Oscar without having been shown in a single cinema beforehand.
swell
- ↑ Kevin Macdonald: My film is not biased against Palestinians. In: theguardian.com. May 27, 2000, accessed January 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Ulrich Wegener, Interview in Ein Tag im September : “I think… I think it's probably true, yes. It was the mentality of that time. "
- ↑ Hans-Jochen Vogel, Interview in Ein Tag im September : “I remember very well that Willy Brandt always made this gesture on such questions [Vogel makes a gesture of hopelessness]. I don't want to say [or] do any more. "
- ↑ Filmdienst.de (credits) and Welt.de .
- ↑ Roger Ebert: One Day In September. Movie review. In: RogerEbert.com. March 9, 2001, accessed July 4, 2009 .
Web links
- One Day in September in the Internet Movie Database (English)