The rebels demanded international recognition of an independent Chechnya. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation. Be the first to contribute! For more info visit http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/oneday/ One Day In September. The film says the plane suspiciously contained only 12 passengers, none of them women or children; now Jamal Al Gashey confirms it was a setup. Could not find a trailer so I uploaded myself. Macdonald brings remarkable research to the film. He has managed to obtain interviews with most of the key figures who are still alive, including the one surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, now in hiding "in Africa" (the two other survivors were killed by Israeli assassination squads). Armed Chechen rebels took over 1000 people including school children at a school. Best Feature length doc ever made. One Day in September reminds us of the bizarre sight of the children of all nations of the globe in the Olympic village sunbathing and playing ping … One Day in September At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, a group of eight Palestinian revolutionaries took a group of Israeli athletes hostage, and the … Peter Bradshaw: For all its occasional naivety and bias, Macdonald's film is a riveting and hallucinatory recapitulation of 20th-century history The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage warwhat would become the blitzkrieg strategy. What Child Is This: The Enduring Legacy of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, NBC’s Mr. Mayor Fails to Rise to Ted Danson’s Level, Netflix's Lupin is the First Great Show of 2021, Coyote Has Unpredictable Journey to CBS All Access. Synopsis by Mark Deming. One unforgettable love story. Instead, wrong matches are made, friendships are put to the test, and the notion of true love is tested. Still, one wonders why newsreel shots of Hitler and reminders of the Nazi past are necessary in a film that has almost no time at all to explain who the Palestinians were or why they made such a desperate raid. In a development that would be funny if it were not so sad, the Germans stationed a 747 jet on an airport runway as a getaway plane for the terrorists, and staffed it with cops dressed as the plane's crew; but minutes before the plane was to be used, the cops took a vote, decided they were not competent to handle the assignment and walked off the plane. "One Day in September" is a new kind of thriller - one where real lives are at stake and every event is true. "One Day in September" is a new kind of thriller - one where real lives are at stake and every event is true. This is the story of Laurie, Sarah, and Jack. They were billed as the "Olympics of Peace and Joy" but became the Olympics of terror. Synopsis | "One Day in September" grips the attention and is exciting and involving. Only Elcano, 17 other Europeans, and four Indians survived to reach Spain in September 1522. “One Day in December is a charming story about love and serendipity for the hopeless romantic in all of us.” —PopSugar “If Love Actually met Sliding Doors and became a novel influenced by Jojo Myers, you’d have One Day in December. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Al-Gashey, who is in hiding in Africa, wears a cap and sunglasses and his face is slightly blurred. As narrated by actor Michael Douglas, One Day in September explains that the Black September group decided to use the Olympics, attended by the world media, as a … “One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.” —Modern Mrs. Darcy “If Love Actually met Sliding Doors and became a novel influenced by Jojo Myers, you’d have One Day in December . They were billed as the "Olympics of Peace and Joy" but became the Olympics of terror. He talks to an Israeli athlete who escaped, the son of another and the widow of a third, to Israeli coaches and security experts, to German generals and police officers, to journalists who covered the event. I was disturbed, however, by Macdonald's pumped-up style, and by a tasteless conclusion in which images of action, bloodshed and corpses are cut together into a montage and backed with rock music. In 1972, an extreme Palestinian group called Black September held 11 Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic village in Munich, while the world looked on, incredulous. Much is made of "German efficiency," Macdonald observes, but the Germans were so inefficient that they had no trained anti-terrorist squad, no security around the compound, no contingency plans, not even effective communication (a police sniper and a helicopter pilot were shot by German police who had not been told who they were). The raid had nothing to do with the Nazi past, and the current Germans seemed like comic-opera buffoons from a Groucho Marx comedy. Under the academy bylaws, only those who have seen all five nominated docs can vote, and by limiting those who have seen his, Cohn shrinks the voting pool and improves his odds. 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