Munich (2005)
Munich was the link movie connecting King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
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Both Eric Bana and Daniel Craig appeared in Munich.
About Munich
"The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next."
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Eric Roth, Tony Kushner
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Munich received five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Score. The film did not win those Oscars according to the article; the score nomination lost to Brokeback Mountain. The soundtrack also earned a Grammy nomination but did not win.
Soundtrack
Score by John Williams
The score was composed and conducted by John Williams and makes use of the wailing woman technique. The soundtrack album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score (lost to Brokeback Mountain) and for a Grammy (lost to Memoirs of a Geisha). Critical ratings included AllMusic 3.5/5, Filmtracks 4/5, SoundtrackNet 4.5/5, and ScoreNotes A−.
Movie trivia
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Steven Spielberg produced and directed Munich, which was co-written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth and is based on George Jonas's 1984 book Vengeance about Mossad assassinations after the Munich massacre.
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The film underperformed domestically compared with Spielberg's other films, making it one of his lowest-grossing releases in the United States despite stronger overseas returns.
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Munich follows a five-man Mossad hit team led by Avner and chronicles missions across Europe and Beirut; a title card states nine of the eleven targeted Palestinians were killed, including Ali Hassan Salameh in 1979.
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Spielberg sought historical authenticity for the hostage-taking sequence, using actual news footage and depicting the shooting of all the Israeli athletes in accordance with autopsy findings.
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Israeli-American actor Guri Weinberg portrays his own father, wrestling coach Moshe, and Weinberg himself was only one month old when his father was killed at Munich.
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Former Mossad operatives and senior Israeli intelligence figures publicly criticized the film's accuracy, arguing it misrepresents how operations were run and presents a distorted, Hollywood-style account.
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