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Breaking Baz: ‘September 5’ Vividly Recalls Tragedy Of The 1972 Olympics Massacre & Jim McKay’s Haunting Announcement, “They’re All Gone” — Venice Film Festival
Sports Giant Jim McKay ‘Stars’ In Gripping Munich ‘72 Olympics Film
EXCLUSIVE: “They’re all gone.” Those were the harrowing, unforgettable words, delivered by ABC TV’s Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay that 11 Israeli athletes had been slaughtered by Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Suddenly, Fehlbaum thought, ”Oh wow, that’s actually the most interesting angle to tell the story from.” He began to envisage a movie that would encapsulate how a group of professionals went into an area outside of their expertise and how they were able to overcome that using skills that would later revolutionize TV news. “The idea with that character is to have someone that I guess is a kind of representative for that generation that is trying to acknowledge what happened but also try and move past it,” Benesch told us from Venice, where she is readying for Thursday night’s world premiere.
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