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September 5 follows the television producers and crew on site at the German Olympics when the Israeli team and their coaches were taken hostage. Original footage from the reporters and the terrorists is interwoven with the movie being shot today. The interviews and clips are almost exclusively real clips from the 70s, adding a sense of authenticity and realism to the narrative storyline. The real question at hand remains, what do you air during a terrorist attack? There's an incredible moment when the crew is broadcasting the police raid that is happening right outside the doors of the rooms where the hostages are being held and a member of the tv crew realizes that the terrorists are watching tv and seeing the "surprise" attack in real time. Journalistic ethics are perhaps the most antiquated of the relics in the film, and I was nostalgic for that, as well as a time when kidnapping and murdering Jews was pretty universally considered a bad thing. Those were the days.
Nonetheless, I loved this film. It's Apollo 13 at the Olympics - we know the outcome and yet we are on the edges of our seats at every moment. I would have loved for this movie to get more attention. The palpable tension of a German translator observing that the Germans have once again let the Jews down spoke to a society that has the good grace to admit that killing Jews is wrong.
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