In “September 5,” which Paramount plans to release on Nov. 29, the tense hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics unfolds with painstaking detail from the point of view of the ABC Sports team covering the games. To do this, director Tim Fehlbaum and the team went to great lengths to give what cinematographer Markus Förderer describes as a “historic thriller” its authentic look and feel, including finding and using meticulously researched period broadcast equipment and filming techniques.
This included a faithful re-creation of the ABC Sports broadcast facility control room, where much of the story unfolds. The sets were built at Bavaria Studios in Munich, and additional filming took
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