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Rating: Summer 1972. A group of Palestinian terrorists seizes all the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, slaughtering them in a heinous bloodbath. Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, orders state vengeance, known in history as "Wrath of God": to discover the names of those responsible and then act accordingly.
For this purpose, a German Jew, Avner Kaufmann, is hired, a young man very confident in himself, at least until his conscience begins to torment him with doubts about the operation's actual usefulness.
Probably Steven Spielberg's greatest film; certainly the most courageous - especially when the Jewish director states the unspeakable truth through an Arab to the naive Kaufmann: "You German Jews have guilt about Auschwitz, and this prevents you from seeing the atrocities of Israel against us. But one day this will change".
The description of the relationships between the Israeli secret services and the PLO is also tremendous, suggesting they might have given false names to clean up their own ranks. The series: with money, you buy every heart, every ideal, and every patriotic love.
Perfect cinematography (but this is Spielberg, we are used to it), and a masterful reconstruction of the environments and the era. A flaw? The lack of dates in the reprisal attacks. Perhaps Spielberg was afraid of being too didactic.
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By ratman
Spielberg returns to the history of the Jews after 'Schindler’s List,' showing them as both victims and perpetrators of a cycle of revenge.
Revenge leads to madness. To the loss of reason. To closing oneself off. With revenge, the paths of dialogue are lost.
By michelecapita
"Anyone who thinks this is a political film... has understood almost nothing, and in any case, is missing the best."
"This is a film about the father, the need to have one, and becoming one."
