Munich (film)
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Munich is a 2005 drama film which depicts the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September gunmen, and the Israeli government's secret retaliation assassinations.
- Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth.
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[edit] Memorable Quotes
Papa: The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong but time and chance happens to them all. Evil falls suddenly, who can say when it falls?
Robert: We're Jews Avner, Jews don't do wrong because our enemies do wrong.
Avner: We can't afford to be that decent anymore.
Robert: I don't know if we ever were that decent. Suffering thousands of years of hatred doesn't make you decent. But we're supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. That's Jewish. That's what I knew, that's what I was taught and I'm losing it. I lose that and that's everything. That's my soul.
Ephraim: We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in. We can't help you because we never heard of you before.
Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
[last lines] Avner: Break bread with me. Come on, you're a Jew in a foreign land. It's written somewhere I should invite you to break bread with me. Break bread with me, Ephraim.
Ephraim: No.
Carl: It's strange, to think of oneself as an assassin.
Avner: Think of yourself as something else then.
Papa: Let me see your hands. [he grabs Avner's hands and compares them to his own]
Papa: Too big for a good cook. That was my problem too! I had been a master, but I have thick, stupid butcher's hands just like yours. Oh, we are tragic men. Butcher's hands, gentle souls.
Steve: Don't fuck with the Jews.
Daphna: We should stay at home.
Avner: You are the only home I ever had.
Daphna: [Laughs] This is so corny
Avner: What? That took a lot for me to say!
Daphna: I bet. Why did I have to marry a sentimentalist? You're ruining my life.
Avner: [to their newborn baby] Your mother's teasing me.
Carl: [to Avner] I knew guys like you in the army. You do any terrifying thing you're asked to do, but you have to do it running. You think you can outrun your fears, your doubts. The only thing that really scares you guys is stillness.
Steve: You know how to shoot, to assassinate people, right? I mean,[to Robert] you make dolls in a toyshop, and you...[to Hans] you shop for sofas? And you- I don't know what you do.
Carl: Me? I worry.
Steve: [to Avner] So why did they make you team leader?
Hans: Because he really knows how to cook a brisket.
Avner: [starts laughing]
Mossad Accountant: In the operational funds box we will deposit 250,000 American dollars. You take it out - we put more in. I want receipts! [he slams his hand on his desk for emphasis]
Mossad Accountant: You are not working for the Baron Rothschild! You're working for Israel, a small country! I'm an old Galicianer from a mud hut in the Ukraine, and I don't trust Yekke putzes let loose in Europe with unlimited operational expenses!
Avner: I'm not a Yekke, I was born in Israel
Mossad Accountant: Where was your Grandfather born?
Avner: Frankfurt
Mossad Accountant: You're a Yekke
Jeanette: I have to go to bed soon. I work in the morning.
Avner: What kind of work do you do?
Jeanette: [taking a long drag on her cigarette] The kind that drives you to drink.
Avner: We must have the same job then.
[edit] Tagline
- The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.
[edit] Main cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Eric Bana | Avner Kaufman |
| Daniel Craig | Steve |
| Ciaran Hinds | Carl |
| Mathieu Kassovitz | Robert |
| Hanns Zischler | Hans |
| Geoffrey Rush | Ephraim |
| Michael Lonsdale | Papa |
| Ayelet Zurer | Daphna |
| Marie Josee Croze | Jeanette |
| Yvan Attal | Tony |
| Mathieu Amalric | Louis |
| Gila Almagor | Avner's Mother |
| Lynn Cohen | Golda Meir |
| Yigal Naor | Mahmoud Hamshari |
| Moritz Bleibtreu | Andreas |
[edit] External links
- Munich quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Munich at Rotten Tomatoes
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