Name: Munich
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2006-01-06
Duration: 164 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Munich

Aftermath of the Munich Olympics Tragedy

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.

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Shared Burdens of Work and Life

Jeanette I have to go to bed soon. I work in the morning.

Avner What kind of work do you do?

Jeanette The kind that drives you to drink.

[taking a long drag on her cigarette]

Avner We must have the same job then.

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Standing Firm Against Antisemitism

Steve Don't fuck with the Jews.

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Reflections on War and Government Changes

Papa I blew up trains, bridges...and trucks full of Germans during the war. My brothers were killed, my papa and my sister were both hanged. She was a young girl.

Louis Papa, the guest doesn't want to hear your war stories.

Papa We paid this price, so Vichy scum could be replaced...by Gaullist scum...and the Nazis could be replaced by Stalin and America. We stay away from governments.

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Unexpected Skills in Unlikely Leadership

Steve You know how to shoot, to assassinate people, right? I mean... you make dolls in a toyshop. And you, you shop for sofas? And you, I don't know what you do.

[to Avner; to Robert; to Hans; to Carl]

Carl Me? I worry.

Steve So why did they make you team leader?

[to Avner]

Hans Because he really knows how to cook a brisket.

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The Burden of Butcher's Hands

Papa Let me see your hands.

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.

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Identity and Reflection in Assassination

Carl It's strange, isn't it, to think of oneself as an assassin?

Avner Think of yourself as something else then.

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The Struggle for Jewish Moral Identity

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.

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Home and Vulnerability in Relationships

Daphna We should stay at home.

Avner You are the only home I ever had.

Daphna This is so corny.

[laughs]

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 Your mother's teasing me.

[to their newborn baby]

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An Invitation to Dinner and Rejection

Avner Come to my house for dinner tonight. Come on, you're a Jew, you're a stranger. It's written somewhere that I should invite you to break bread with me. So, break bread with me, Ephraim.

Ephraim No.

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Conflict and Despair Over Palestinian Identity

Ali Eventually the Arab states will rise against Israel. They don't like Palestinians but they hate the Jews more. It won't be like ]. The rest of the world will see by then what Israel does to us. They won't help when Egypt and Syria attack. Even Jordan. Israel will cease to exist. What?

[[w:Six Day War|1967; Avner stares at him in disbelief]

Avner This is a dream. You can't take back a country you never had.

Ali You sound like a Jew.

Avner Fuck you. I'm the voice inside your head telling you what you already know. You people have nothing to bargain with. You'll never get the land back. You'll die old men in refugee camps waiting for Palestine.

Ali We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever, and if we need to, we can make the whole planet unsafe for Jews.

Avner You kill Jews and the world feels bad for them, and thinks you animals.

Ali Yes. But then the world will see how they've made us into animals. They'll start to ask questions about the conditions in our cages.

Avner You are Arabs. There are lots of places for Arabs.

Ali You're a Jew sympathizer. All you Germans, you're too soft on Israel. Well, you give us money, but you feel guilty about ], and the Jews exploit that guilt. My father ].

[scoffs; [Hitler; [w:The Holocaust| didn't gas any Jews]

Avner Tell me something, Ali.

Ali What?

Avner Do you really miss your father's olive trees? Do you honestly think you have to get back all that, that nothing? That chalky soil and stone huts? Is that what you really want for your children?

Ali It absolutely is. It will take a hundred years, but we'll win. How long did it take the Jews to get their own country? How long did it take the Germans to make Germany?

Avner And look how well that worked out.

Ali You don't know what it is not to have a home. That's why you European Reds don't get it. You say, "It's nothing," but you have a home to come back to. ], ], ]... We all pretend we care about your international revolution, but we don't care. We want to be nations. Home is everything.

[[w:ETA (seperatist group)|ETA; [w:African National Congress|ANC; [w:Irish Republican Army|IRA]

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Identity and Heritage in Conversation

Avner I was born in Israel. I'm not a Yekke.

Mossad Accountant Where was your grandpa from?

Avner Frankfurt.

Mossad Accountant You're a Yekke!

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Negotiating Values and Trust in Conflict

Golda Meir Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

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?

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! 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!

[he emphatically slams his hand on his desk]

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Fear of Stillness and Its Consequences

Carl I've known guys like you in the army. You'll do any terrifying thing you're asked, but you have to do it running. You think you can outrun your fears and your doubts. The only thing that really scares you guys is stillness.

[to Avner]

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Unseen Transactions and Unfamiliar Connections

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.

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