Paramount+ has announced that the Paramount Pictures film September 5 will begin streaming on the service Feb. 25 in the United States and Canada.
September 5 is set during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, where the ABC Sports broadcasting team must quickly shift from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage by terrorists. The film is based on the real-life Munich Massacre, in which eight members of the Palestinian militant group Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine other Israeli athletes hostage. The nine were later also killed by terrorists during an unsuccessful rescue attempt.
The film won screenwriters Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination.
September 5 also was nominated for Best Motion Picture — Drama honors at the Golden Globe Awards.
At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), the story focuses on the intricate details of the high-tech broadcast capabilities of the time, juxtaposed against the many lives at stake and the moral decisions that needed to be made against an impossible ticking clock.
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Directed and co-written by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum, September 5 also stars Zinedine Soualem, Georgina Rich, Corey Johnson, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Adeosun, Benjamin Walker and Ferdinand Dörfler.
