Munich (film)
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| Directed by | Steven Spielberg |
| Produced by | Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy Barry Mendel Colin Wilson |
| Screenplay by |
Tony Kushner Eric Roth |
| Based on |
Vengeance by George Jonas |
| Starring |
Eric Bana Daniel Craig Ciarán Hinds Mathieu Kassovitz Hanns Zischler Geoffrey Rush |
| Music by | John Williams |
| Cinematography | Janusz Kamiński |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
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Universal Pictures (North America) DreamWorks Pictures (International) |
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163 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English Hebrew German Arabic Italian French |
| Budget | $70 million |
| Box office | $130.4 million |
Munich is a 2005 American-Canadian historical drama and political thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.
Based on the book Vengeance about Yuval Aviv, who states he was a Mossad agent, Munich follows a squad of assassins as they track down and kill alleged members of the group Black September, which had kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.
Shot in Malta,Budapest, Paris and New York City, Munich was a critical success but is also one of Spielberg's lowest-grossing films. It garnered positive reviews and five Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay (Kushner and Roth), Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn) and Best Original Score (John Williams). Its worldwide box office gross was $130,358,911.
Munich begins with a depiction of the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics and then cuts to the home of Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir, where Avner Kaufman (Eric Bana), a Mossad agent of German-Jewish descent, is chosen to lead an assassination mission against 11 Palestinians allegedly involved in the massacre. To give the Israeli government plausible deniability and at the direction of his handler Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), Avner resigns from Mossad and operates with no official ties to Israel. His team includes four Jewish volunteers from around the world: South African driver Steve (Daniel Craig), Belgian toy-maker and explosives expert Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), former Israeli soldier and "cleaner" Carl (Ciarán Hinds), and a Danish document forger named Hans (Hanns Zischler). They are given information by a shadowy French informant, Louis (Mathieu Amalric).
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