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With his film "September 5 - The Day Terror Went Live", director Tim Fehlbaum presents us with an incredibly contemporary critique of the media, even though the film is set in 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich, when the Palestinian terrorist organization "Black September" attacked the Israeli athletes' quarters, shot two Israelis dead on the spot and took nine hostages who were later killed. The film, however, focuses on what is going on in the ABC broadcast rooms and studio: The US broadcaster broadcast the hostage-taking live on TV for 22 hours, showed terrorists and hostages, sometimes hindered the work of the police and secret services, and achieved record ratings. Everyone is caught up in the live logic and the attention economy, in which the only thing that matters is increasing the ratings and getting as close as possible to the action. It is telling that many film critics almost completely overlook this media criticism. More on this from Wolfgang M. Schmitt in the film analysis! Literature: Umberto Eco: The Open Work of Art. Suhrkamp. Advertising: The best of DIE FILMANALYSE as a book. With a foreword by Dominik Graf. Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3NCkVHB Our children's book "The Little Wood Thieves and the Mystery of the Juggernaut" has been published! Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/47h1LQI The anthology SELF'S BLAME! has now been published. Affiliate link: https://amzn.to/47qau3a You can support DIE FILMANALYSE financially - thank you very much! PayPal: http://www.paypal.me/filmanalyse Patreon: / wolfgangmschmitt Wolfgang M. Schmitt V&R-Bank Neuwied - Linz IBAN: DE29 5745 0120 0130 7858 43 BIC: MALADE51NWD Produced by FatboyFilm: https://www.fatboyfilm.de / fatboyfilm / fatboyfilm