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Directed by | Steven Spielberg |
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Based on | Vengeance by George Jonas |
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Cinematography | Janusz Kamiński |
Edited by | Michael Kahn |
Music by | John Williams |
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Running time | 163 minutes |
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Budget | $70 million[1] |
Box office | $131 million[1] |
Munich is a 2005 epic historical drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. It is based on the 1984 book Vengeance by George Jonas, an account of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre.
Munich was released by Universal Pictures in the United States and internationally by DreamWorks Pictures on December 23, 2005, and received five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Score. The film made $131 million worldwide but just $47 million in the United States, making it one of Spielberg's lowest-grossing films domestically.[2] In 2017, the film was named the 16th "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times.[3]