21 Hours at Munich is a 1976 American historical drama television film directed by William A. Graham and starring William Holden, Shirley Knight and Franco Nero. It is based on the 1975 non-fiction book The Blood of Israel by Serge Groussard, and it deals with real events concerning the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics. It was broadcast by ABC November 7, 1976. Despite its television origin, the film was released theatrically in several foreign countries. It was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Television Movie at the 29th Primetime Emmys.
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Plot
A dramatization of the incident at the 1972 Summer Olympics when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Cast
William Holden as Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber
Shirley Knight as Anneliese Graes
Franco Nero as Lutif "Issa" Afif
Anthony Quayle as General Zvi Zamir
Richard Basehart as Chancellor Willy Brandt
Noel Willman as Interior Minister Bruno Merk
Georg Marischka as Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Else Quecke as Golda Meir
Michael Degen as Mohammed Khadif
Djamchid Socheili as Touny
Walter Kohut as Feldhaus
Jan Niklas as Schreiber's Aide
Ernest Lenart as Ben Horin
Osman Raghab as Prime Minister Aziz Sedky
James Hurley as Avery Brundage
Franz Rudnick as Troger
Heinz Feldhaus as Brandt's Aide
Martin Gilet as Moshe Weinberger
Paul L. Smith as Yossef Gutfreund
Günther Maria Halmer as Andre Spitzer
David Hess as David Berger
Erik Falk as Yossef Romano
Bernhard Melcer as Mark Slavin
Herbert Fux as Kehat Shorr
Epamonodas Sdukos as Amitzur Shapira
Wilfried von Aacken as Yakov Springer
Abraham Gabison as Eliezer Halfin
Ullrich Haupt as Israeli Coach
Dan van Husen as Tony Nazzal
Achim Geisler as Abu Halla
Reto Feurer as Khalid "Salah" Jawad
Julio Pinheiro as Afif Ahmed "Paulo" Hamid
Franz Gunther Heider as Samir
Sammy Kazian as Denawi
Carmelo Ceslo as Badran