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The film is not about the terrorist action that shattered the stillness of the Munich Olympic village but instead about Israel’s response. Israel, with Prime Minister Golda Meir’s full endorsement, then dispatched assassination squads to kill anyone known to have helped plan the attack or support Black September. “Munich” is based on a true story.

Eric Bana plays Avner, the main character. He is the leader of a fiveman team of covert ex-Mossad operatives who have been given unofficial status by the government of Israel so they can track down and assassinate the Palestinians responsible for planning and executing the attack. With him are Hans (Harms Zischler), an expert forger; Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), a toymaker-tumed bomb maker; Carl (Ciaran Hinds), an intellectual doubter; and Steve (Darnel Craig), playing an instinctive man, not plagued by conscience, a natural

See MUNICH, Page B5

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