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fi n Sept. 5, 1972, Arab terrorism
%I meshed with memories of the
Holocaust to forever stain the
Olympic flag.
Durinc, a day and night of sus-
pense, eight terrorists invaded the
Olympic Village in Munich and
took 11 Israeli sportsmen hostage,
killing two outright.
After hours of tense negotiations,
a bungled German rescue effort
ended with the remaining nine
Israelis and five of the terrorists dead
on the tarmac of the Munich air-
port. After a memorial service, the
games resumed in full force.
In One Day in September, a film
that combines the thriller genre with
documentary authenticity, many of
the surviving principals on the
German, Israeli and Arab sides
reconstruct the bloody events, reveal
what went on behind the scenes and
answer questions that have puzzled
investigators for more than 27 years.
The 90-minute film, narrated by
actor Michael Douglas and more
than two years in the making, has so
far been shown only at a private
screening at the American Film
Institute in Los Angeles, but still
garnered an Oscar nomination for
Best Documentary.
The driving force behind the film
is Arthur Cohn, a native and resi-
dent of Basel, Switzerland. He is the
only producer in motion picture his-
tory to have won five Oscars, includ-
ing one for the The Garden of the
Finzi-Co-ntinis. His Central Station
won a Golden Globe last year
Cohn's legendary persistence
enabled his team to dig out never
shown archival footage and persuade
other lead personalities in the bloody
1972 drama to tell their stories.
Among them are Zvi Zarnir, the
then director of the normally super-
secretive Mossad, who was on the
scene in Munich; the German heads
of the Olympic Village and the pOlice
force; Israeli athletes who escaped the
massacre; and the widows and daugh-
ters of some of the victims.
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Minutes from the Fisher Theatre in the
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Actor Michael Douglas narrates
"One Day in September."
Cohn, though a committed Jew
and scion of an old Zionist family,
decided that the only way to make
a credible film was to allow the
Palestinian side to present its per-
spectives and arguments.
The two years of research by
Cohn's team also produced some
startling revelations. One concerns
an early rescue attempt by German
police volunteers to infiltrate the
hostage quarters in the Olympic
Village from the roof'and through
utility ducts.
The rescue, it is now revealed,
was foiled by agents attached to
the Communist East German
team, who filmed the operation
from an opposite building and,
through sophisticated communica-
tion techniques, transmitted the
deployment of the police to the
terrorists.
The emotional impact of One
Day in September is heightened by
a musical score of 1970s hits, mas-
terly editing by Britain's Justine
Wright and the <creative direction
of Kevin MacDonald, a grandson
of Hungarian Jewish screenwriter
Emeric Presburger.
Current plans call for a world
premiere screening in Israel in
mid-April, with all proceeds to go
to the surviving families of the
1972 Munich victims.
Other nominees for Best
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