RESTAURANT os 's Olympic Massacre Retold In Film featuring Prime Filet in our 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. eitaur a lan, Doe!r arn,otti zip iatice Minutes from the Fisher Theatre in the heart of Detroit's Cultural Center 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