Watch The Engrossing Trailer For SEPTEMBER 5

By Michelle McCue | October 24, 2024

Called “Gripping” by The Hollywood Reporter in their Venice Film Festival review, watch the trailer for SEPTEMBER 5.

SEPTEMBER 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, “September 5” provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.

At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. As narratives shift, time ticks away, and conflicting rumors spread, with the hostages’ lives hanging in the balance, Geoff grapples with tough decisions while confronting his own moral compass.

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum, SEPTEMBER 5 stars Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker, Ferdinand Dörfler.

The film screened at the Venice, Telluride, Zurich film festivals and sits at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

In their review, Variety said, “Multiple well-told accounts exist of the Munich massacre, including Kevin Macdonald’s excellent, Oscar-winning doc “One Day in September,” which makes the movie’s blind spots fairly easy to forgive. Stylistically, Fehlbaum presents this almost like a documentary, using handheld camerawork (and digital post-production that suggests it was shot on vintage high-contrast 16mm film stock) to inject a sense of slightly manufactured realism.”

Indiewire praised the film. “Top to bottom, “September 5” is a technically impressive feat, with cinematographer Markus Förderer shooting on what appears to be a celluloid that splices almost seamlessly with the actual 16mm archival footage of Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay and of the hostage crisis itself.”

The Wrap’s Steve Pond said SEPTEMBER 5 is “a valuable addition to the rosters of both journalism movies and terrorism movies, with an ending that manages to deliver a quiet gut punch even to those who know where the story is going.”

From Paramount Pictures, SEPTEMBER 5 opens in select theatres November 29 and nationwide December 13.

https://www.september5movie.com