Sword of Gideon (1986)

Directed by

Michael Anderson

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, Canada

Runtime

3h 23m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team of Mossad agents is formed to track down and kill the people believed responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. The film follows their covert operations across different countries as they carry out targeted assassinations.

tensegrittysomberdeliberatecoldsuspensefulseriousmethodical

What happens

Sword of Gideon is a 1986 Canadian television film about Mossad agents hunting down terrorists associated with the 1972 Munich massacre. It was first shown on the CTV Television Network in Canada as a four-hour miniseries and later on HBO in the United States. Directed by Michael Anderson and written by Chris Bryant, the film stars Steven Bauer and Michael York. The film is based on the book Vengeance by George Jonas, an account of the incident which has been criticized by some intelligence personnel as fictional, though because of its covert nature is difficult to prove or disprove. In some countries the book was titled Vengeance: Sword of Gideon, from which the movie title is drawn. The story was retold in the 2005 film Munich by Steven Spielberg. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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