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21 Hours at Munich is a 1976 American historical drama television film directed by William A. Graham and starring William Holden, Shirley Knight and Franco Nero. It is based on the 1975 non-fiction book The Blood of Israel by Serge Groussard, [1] and it deals with real events concerning the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics. [2]
Dec 13, 2021 · In 1972’s Olympic Games at München, a group of terrorists, members of an organization called Black September, famously stormed the Olympic Village, taking several Israeli athletes hostage. After a tense day of negotiations and a rescue attempt, the event ended in tragedy.
Dec 13, 2021 · 21 Hours at Munich, which hit screens in 1976, tells the story. 1.33 Television // 1.78 Theatrical. There’s an immediacy to this telling, which released only 4 years after the event. As footnoted...
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While this “inspired by a true story” movie, which covers the revenge missions the Mossad Israeli spy agency took against the group responsible for the massacre – Black September – has received...
Feb 8, 2022 · So, just how much fact outweighed the fiction in "Munich," and where did the skewed story elements to Spielberg's gripping thriller originate from? Let's take a deeper dive.
21 Hours At Munich is pretty much a straight forward account of those real life events. It presents its story very matter-of-factly, almost documentary-like, even using real footage of the Olympic games for added realism.
21 Hours at Munich: Directed by William A. Graham. With William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero, Anthony Quayle. A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.
