Plot
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?
Keywords: 1970s, accidental-death, airplane, airport, algerian, american, anarchy, antique-dealer, antique-shop, arab
The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.
Robert: We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul.
Avner: We can't afford to be that decent anymore.::Robert: I don't know if we were ever that decent.
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.
Jeanette: [Before she is executed by Avner and Steve] Maybe you want to hire me. You know how good I am. No, don't! Such a fucking waste of talent!
Hans: [When Avner covering the naked body of the dead Jeanette with her robe] Leave it!
Steve: The only blood that matters to me is Jewish blood.
Avner: [over the phone with his infant daughter] Hey, sweetheart, this is your papa... this my voice, my darling... don't forget what I sound like, okay?
Ephraim: That's touching, in a juvenile sort of way.
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.
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