Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Leonie Benesch presented September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s drama of the Munich hostage crisis seen from a television control room, in Mayfair.
September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s drama of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis seen from a television control room, held its UK premiere at Curzon Mayfair on Tuesday 4 February 2025. Peter Sarsgaard led the cast.
Sarsgaard was born at Scott Air Force Base in 1971. His first film role came in Dead Man Walking in 1995, and Shattered Glass brought him a Golden Globe nomination. He won the Volpi Cup at Venice for Memory in 2023.
In September 5 he plays Roone Arledge, the president of ABC Sports. The film follows the ABC Sports crew in Munich on the day the Black September group took members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage. It turns on the choices the control room made as it carried the crisis live.
Fehlbaum wrote the film with Moritz Binder and Alex David. It opened the Orizzonti Extra section at Venice in August 2024, and its screenplay had just been nominated for an Academy Award.
John Magaro, who plays the control-room head Geoffrey Mason, joined Sarsgaard with Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Fehlbaum and Binder. Paramount Pictures released the film in British cinemas two days later.