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21 Hours at Munich (1976) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1976 · 101 mins · English
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- Directed by
- William A. Graham
- Starring
- Franco Nero, William Holden, Richard Basehart, Anthony Quayle, Günther Maria Halmer, Michael Degen
At 4:09 a.m. on September 5 1972, eleven Israeli Olympic athletes were seized by armed militants at the Munich Games. Over the next 21 hours the world watched anxiously as the hostage crisis unfolded, ending in the tragic murder of all eleven athletes. The film dramatizes this harrowing episode.
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