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Spielberg explores a state sponsored response to a very public outrage.

Director Steven Spielberg's exploration of a controversial state sponsored response to a very public outrage - the 1972 Munich Olympic village murders - and the Isreali secret service agents who hunted for the killers.

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Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, ET. the Extra Terrestrial, Schindlers' List, Jurrasic Park, The Lost World, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds etc...) directs an international cast in Munich, a gripping suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the real-life murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

This dramatic exploration inspired by true events follows a secret group of Israeli agents - assassins assigned to track down and kill the Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack. The film follows the stories of the members of this 'death squad' - exploring the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who leads it, as well as on those other lives caught in the crossfire.

The international cast includes Eric Bana (Troy, The Other Boleyn Girl, Black Hawk Down and Ang Lee's 2003 live action take on Stan Lee's The Hulk), new James Bond Daniel Craig (The Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale, Layer Cake, Road to Perdition), Ciarán Hinds (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera), Mathieu Kassovitz (Birthday Girl), Hanns Zischler (Walk on Water) and Geoffrey Rush (Shine).

The script is the first feature by Tony Kushner winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and many other awards for his epochal Broadway drama Angels in America as well as its Emmy Award-winning adaptation for HBO screened in the UK last year on Channel 4. The film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy as well as Barry Mendel, Steven Spielberg and Colin Wilson.

Bound to be controversial, this fictionalised account of a very controversial topic (effectively rolling thoughts on both the death penalty and state responses to terrorism into one issue) and attempts to examine the nature of justice and revenge.

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