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?
Okay. You're right back. Now I have an approach.
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.