Location Flashback: Munich (2005)

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VERDICT: Filmed at Basilica Kolleggjjata u Proto-Parrocca ta’ San Pawl (Basilica of St. Paul), Rabat, Malta

In this scene, having stayed behind to collect the shell casing from the first killing, Clara (Claran Hinds) arrives at the rendezvous point at an outdoor café in Rome where he meets Avner (Eric Bana) and the rest of the team.

Munich was released by Universal Pictures in the United States and internationally by DreamWorks Pictures on December 23, 2005. The film received five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Score. It made $131 million worldwide, but only $47 million in the United States, marking it as one of Spielberg’s lowest-grossing films domestically. In 2017, Munich was named the 16th “Best Film of the 21st Century So Far” by The New York Times.

Some reviewers criticized Munich for what they call the film’s equating the Israeli assassins with “terrorists” Leon Wieseltier wrote in The New Republic: “Munich prefers a discussion of counter-terrorism to a discussion of terrorism; or it thinks that they are the same discussion”. Melman and other critics of the book and the film have said that the story’s premise—that Israeli agents had second thoughts about their work—is not supported by interviews or public statements.

Basilica Kolleggjata u Proto-Parrocca ta’ San Pawl (Bascilla of St. Paul) is a church in Rabat, Malta. There were numerous churches built on the site of the present church which dates from the 17th century. In 1336 Bishop Hilarius refers to the church as ecclesia sancti Paulli de crypta and also mentions the cemetery and the Roman ditch. The church was built to replace a church that was completed in1578. The church was elevated to a Minor Basilica in 2020.

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