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After a devastating hostage crisis claims the lives of Israeli athletes, the Israeli government sends a small team of operatives across Europe to find those believed responsible. As the mission unfolds, the team faces mounting danger, suspicion, and difficult questions about revenge, justice, and the consequences of violence.
Cast: Daniel Craig, Eric Bana, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush, Gila Almagor, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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Trivia & production notes
- John Williams composed the score for Munich, which incorporates the wailing woman vocal technique.
- The Munich soundtrack lost the Academy Award for Best Original Score to Brokeback Mountain.
- Roger Ebert ranked Munich as the third-best film of 2005.
- James Berardinelli gave Munich four stars, making it the only film from 2005 to receive that rating from him, and subsequently added it to his all-time top 100 films list.
- The Zionist Organization of America called for a boycott of Munich on December 27, 2005, criticizing its factual basis and condemning screenwriter Tony Kushner.
- According to Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, the book Munich was based on a source who claimed to be the lead assassin but was actually a baggage inspector at Tel Aviv airport.
- A retired head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service compared Munich to a children's adventure story, saying there was no comparison between the film and how such operations actually work in reality.
- Munich earned $83 million overseas, more than double its $47 million North American box office total.
- Critics Jim Emerson and Matt Zoller Seitz interpreted Munich's climactic sex scene as representing the corruption of the protagonist's personal life through his conditioning to kill.
- The film's opening title card included Lillehammer in a montage of cities, an apparent acknowledgment by Spielberg of the Lillehammer affair despite the widow of a Munich massacre victim feeling it was overlooked.
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