«Munich Games», the series that helps better understand the present – Corriere.it

After more than fifty years, the tragic events of Munich ’72when a command of the Black September Palestinian invaded the Olympic village
killing eleven Israeli athletes it’s a police officer
, are once again being talked about; but not through the classical Historical reconstructionbut placing that story inside the drives and the tensions of today. The TV series «Munich Games» (Sky) thus plunges us back into the nightmare of terrorism; the actualization of the threat, instead of placing it at a distance, thus helps us to link past and present by exploiting all the more classic elements of spy stories. «Munich Games» is based on aunprecedented alliance Between Israel and Germany, both in production and plot. The series is in fact written by Michael Aviram (one of the creators of “Faud”) and directed by director Philip Kadelback, and stages the collaboration between a Mossad agent And a German policewoman of the LKA.

Browsing the dark webthe former realizes that a terrorist group of Islamic matrix is planning a bombing to be performed on the occasion of a football match between a team from Munich and one from Tel Aviv, an event held at theOlympiastadion of the Bavarian city just to remember the slaughter fifty years earlier. Thus began a collaboration in the field between two subjects who for method And cultural tradition they couldn’t be more different. And the writing is affected, struggling not a little to bring out the most characteristic features of one and the other, of the plot necessary to unravel the complexity of the matter. However, «Munich Games» impresses with the formal careas a quality product that makes its way into the panorama saturated of contemporary seriality. It’s a rarity for fans of the genrewhere action and silence alternate in the classic climate of a spy thriller, where different languages ​​confront each other in the effort ofincommunicability.