The film "September 5" by Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum has won the main prize at the Bavarian Film Awards. (archive picture)
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The film "September 5" by Basel director Tim Fehlbaum has won the main prize for best film at the Bavarian Film Awards. The prize is endowed with 100,00 euros.
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25.01.2025, 00:21
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The film about the 1972 Olympic assassination in Munich thus beat "The Outrun" and "Treasure - Familie ist ein fremdes Land", which each received 50,000 euros.
"Sometimes a single film succeeds in transporting us so intensely into the past that we feel as if we were there ourselves, even if the event took place many decades ago," said the jury, which called Fehlbaum's film a "masterpiece".
"September 5" tells a gripping story from the perspective of the US television station ABC Sports, which was the first to have a live camera on the terrorist act. The film also has a chance of winning an Oscar this year: director and author Fehlbaum, screenwriter Moritz Binder and co-writer Alex David are nominated for Best Original Screenplay.