How the ‘September 5’ Filmmakers Created an Authentic Experience

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Carolyn Giardina In “September 5,” which Paramount plans to release on Nov. 29, the tense hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics unfolds with painstaking detail from the point of view of the ABC Sports team covering the games.

To do this, director Tim Fehlbaum and the team went to great lengths to give what cinematographer Markus Förderer describes as a “historic thriller” its authentic look and feel, including finding and using meticulously researched period broadcast equipment and filming techniques.

This included a faithful re-creation of the ABC Sports broadcast facility control room, where much of the story unfolds. The sets were built at Bavaria Studios in Munich, and additional filming took place at the actual locations in the German city. “Tim always wanted to have it as realistic as possible, and I wanted to have it designed in a way that fits to the drama and the thriller,” production designer Julian R.

Wagner explains, adding that this was a challenge. “We had to create a space that captured the confines of the TV studio and entrap the cast within it, [and it] needed to be visually designed in such a way that it could carry the plot over 90 minutes.” It was decided that they would take some creative license in designing the space itself but be specific in the use of the period production gear.