This documentary is simply one of the best I've ever seen. The build-up is brilliant, the interviews with relatives are gripping and often heartbreaking.
The laughing German general (Ulrich Wegener), who oversaw the worst terrorist rescue attempt in history, is just unreal. As was the entire operation. I knew something about the botched attempt but had no idea how bad it really was. If it happened like it did in a movie, you'd say it was rather far-fetched.
The music, especially Moby and the Chronos Quartett is quite haunting and just stays in your head. The soundtrack was actually the reason I bought it on DVD, after first seeing it on the BBC.
This piece of film is about One Day In September. Nothing more, nothing less. Yet obviously some people still don't get it. Blabbering on about the "social context of the Palestinian plight" or-what-have-you. Please go and watch Michael Moore's Waste o'Celluloid.
The laughing German general (Ulrich Wegener), who oversaw the worst terrorist rescue attempt in history, is just unreal. As was the entire operation. I knew something about the botched attempt but had no idea how bad it really was. If it happened like it did in a movie, you'd say it was rather far-fetched.
The music, especially Moby and the Chronos Quartett is quite haunting and just stays in your head. The soundtrack was actually the reason I bought it on DVD, after first seeing it on the BBC.
This piece of film is about One Day In September. Nothing more, nothing less. Yet obviously some people still don't get it. Blabbering on about the "social context of the Palestinian plight" or-what-have-you. Please go and watch Michael Moore's Waste o'Celluloid.