Munich (film)

Munich is a 2005 historical drama and political thriller film based on Operation Wrath of God, the Israeli governments secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.

Munich begins with a depiction of the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics and then cuts to the home of Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir, where Avner Kaufman Eric Bana, a Mossad agent of GermanJewish descent, is chosen to lead an assassination mission againstPalestinians allegedly involved in the massacre. To give the Israeli government plausible deniability and at the direction of his handler Ephraim Geoffrey Rush, Avner resigns from Mossad and operates with no official ties to Israel. His team includes four Jewish volunteers from around the world South African driver Steve Daniel Craig, Belgian toymaker and explosives expert Robert Mathieu Kassovitz, former Israeli soldier and cleaner Carl Ciarn Hinds, and a Danish document forger named Hans Hanns Zischler. They are given information by a shadowy French informant, Louis Mathieu Amalric.In Rome, the team shoots and kills Wael Zwaiter, who is broke and living as a poet. In Paris, they detonate a bomb in the home of Mahmoud Hamshari in Cyprus, they bomb the hotel room of Hussein Al Bashir Hussein Abd Al Chir. With Israel Defense Forces IDF commandos, they pursue three Palestinians to BeirutMuhammad Youssef alNajjar Abu Youssef Kamal Adwan and Kamal Nasser, a Palestine Liberation Organization PLO spokesmanpenetrating the Palestinians guarded compound and killing all three. ........

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