Munich '72 and Beyond (2016)

Directed by

Stephen Crisman

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

44 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the secretive official response to the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis and the efforts of victims' families to uncover the truth about the brutality their loved ones suffered. It gives voice to relatives, including a widow who describes the mutilation of her husband.

soberpainfulinformativeunsettlingsomberpersonalcandid

What happens

Munich '72 and Beyond is a 2016 short documentary film. The film documents the secrecy in which the ordeals undergone by the hostages has been shrouded, and follows the struggle of their surviving relatives to discover and reveal the barbarism of the attackers. In the film Ilana Romano, widow of murdered Olympic weightlifter Yossef Romano, reveals that her husband was castrated. Other hostages had their bones broken by their captors. The film was produced by psychologist Steven Ungerleider, and David Ulich. Stephen Crisman was director, writer and executive producer. Michael Cascio was executive producer, and David Bret Egen was co-producer and editor. Production began in 2015 under the working title Munich 1972 & Beyond. The film's runtime is 44 minutes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• One Day in September (1999)
• München 72 - Das Attentat (2012)
• Reckoning with Torture (2016)
• Vom Traum zum Terror
• September 5 (2024)
• Theo Who Lived (2016)
• Tower (2016)
• Hitler's Games, Berlin 1936 (2016)