Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympics
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympics |
| Original title | Visions of Eight |
| Country of production | United States |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jim Clark Miloš Forman Kon Ichikawa Claude Lelouch Juri Nikolajewitsch Oserow Arthur Penn Michael Pflegehar John Schlesinger Mai Zetterling |
| script |
David Hughes Deliara Ozerowa Shuntaro Tanikawa |
| production |
Stan Margulies David L. Wolper Pierre Pardon Isao Zeniya |
| music | Henry Mancini |
| camera |
Daniel Bocly Michael J. Davis Rune Ericson Alan Hume Walter Lassally Jörgen Persson Igor Slabnevich Ernst Wild Arthur Wooster Masuo Yamaguchi |
| cut |
Dede Allen Catherine Bernard Jim Clark Lars Hagström Edward Roberts Margot von Schlieffen |
Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympiade (alternatively Olympiade '72 Munich , original title Visions of Eight ) is an American - German documentary from 1973 about the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich .
action
Eight renowned directors - embedded in a framework report by director Jim Clark - each deal with the competitions in their own way. Each director sheds light on a different aspect of the games and puts this into a 15-minute contribution. The unexpected hostage drama on September 5, 1972, in which the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September murdered two Israeli athletes, took nine others hostage and the attempt at liberation ended in a bloodbath, was only discussed indirectly, in order to give the active athletes appropriate importance. Only Schlesinger's final contribution on the marathon integrated documentary recordings of the terrorist attack.
The individual contributions are divided into:
- The Beginning (Direction: Juri Nikolajewitsch Oserow , Soviet Union )
- The Strongest (Director: Mai Zetterling , Sweden )
- The Highest (Direction: Arthur Penn , USA)
- The Women (Direction: Michael Pflegehar , BRD)
- The Fastest (Director: Kon Ichikawa , Japan )
- The Decathlon - The Decathlon (Director: Miloš Forman , Czechoslovakia )
- The Losers (Direction: Claude Lelouch , France )
- The Longest (Director: John Schlesinger , Great Britain )
The Decathlon essentially highlights the decathlon as the climax of the Olympic Games and is the longest contribution at 16 minutes. Miloš Forman shows how the participants get more and more tired and visibly suffer. After all, the participants in the games are at the end of their physical strength. The report of brass music, cowbells, yodelling and also classical music, which ends with Beethoven's ode to joy, is acoustically underlined. One of the organizers, visibly bored, asleep in the stands, or his colleagues, who sometimes act in grotesque slow motion and then again in fast motion, are shown as side shots. There are also settings of Bavaria's capital and its sights that embed the sporting event.
background
Munich 1972 premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1973, but not as part of the competition. The film opened in American cinemas on August 10, 1973 and in German cinemas on September 13, 1973.
To mark the milestone anniversaries of the Munich Olympic Games, Munich was shown repeatedly on German television in 1972 , most recently on the 40th anniversary in August 2012.
In the German version of the film, Ernst Huberty can be heard off-screen in some scenes.
Reviews
“Eight well-known directors are filming their impressions of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The arts and crafts technology pushes the sport into the background, some worthwhile thematic approaches are given away. The documentary recordings of the terrorist attack have the most lasting effect on the Israeli team. "
moviepilot.de assessed: "'Munich 1972' is a fascinating contemporary document, the individual episodes of which clearly reveal the handwriting of the respective filmmaker."
Kino.de judged the documentary with the words: "Overall unbalanced, the filmmakers' artistic demands too often ensure that their portrayal of winners and losers degenerates into a slow-motion ballet that makes the hoped-for personal impressions interchangeable." Or as the film service wrote : “The arts and crafts technology pushes the sport into the background, some worthwhile thematic approaches are given away. The documentary recordings of the terrorist attack have the most lasting effect on the Israeli team. "
Award
The film received a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for Best Documentary .
DVD release
In 2012, Munich appeared on DVD in 1972 under the title Olympiade '72 Munich in the SZ-Cinemathek series .
Web links
- Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympics in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Visions of Eight at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Collection of reviews on Rottentomatoes.com (English)
- Visions of Eight ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Runningmovies.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympiad: The Decathlon on Milos Forman's official website, accessed March 4, 2018.
- ^ Munich 1972 in the archive of the Cannes Film Festival, accessed on August 4, 2012.
- ^ Munich 1972 in the archive of the website Festival-cannes.com, accessed on March 28, 2012.
- ↑ Munich 1972 in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b Munich 1972 - 8 famous directors watch the games of the XX. Olympics. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Munich Olympics 1972 - Visions of Eight at moviepilot.de, accessed on March 4, 2018.
- ^ Film review at Kino.de , accessed on March 4, 2018.
- ^ Munich 1972 commentary at filmdienst.de, accessed on March 4, 2018.