UFA-Dabei 842/1972 12.09.1972

01 Munich: Assembly of Olympic competition cyclists, walkers, archery, obstacle course, military riding (riding falls into the water), white water rafting, sailing, dressage.

02. Munich: High jump women Stadium, total. Photographers. Ulrike Meyfarth runs and jumps, ZL. She wins gold. Ulrike Meyfarth is congratulated by the Mitkämpferinnen.

03. Munich: 4 x 100 m women start. Various settings on the run, partially in ZL. After last change battle between Heide Rosendahl / BRD and DDR and Renate Stecher. The last change, and the final in ZL. Joy at the German woman relay team.

04. Munich: Hockey final the only goal and some other settings in the game between West Germany - Pakistan. The German team wins. At the award ceremony the Pakistani can no longer come to terms with their defeat; They swing their medals and also otherwise unsportsmanlike behavior.

05. Munich: Rudkowsky boxes in the middleweight fight between Dieter Kottysch from Hamburg (in the dark shirt) and the Poland, with various settings. Kapoor pleased boundless, he kisses the opponent, the referee, and Willy Daume at the award ceremony.

06. Munich: 1500 m women start. The run with various settings. Ellen Tittel collapses and lies on the Earth, paramedics and doctors take care of them. Bragina / USSR WINS.

07. Munich: Marathon. 76 runners start the marathon race. The run leads two spectators in wheelchair through Munich. The winner Frank Shorter / United States arrives at the stadium. Award ceremony. The last runner Maurice Charlotin from Haiti arrive in pouring rain.

08 "Prize of the Nations" Hans-Günter Winkler Munich: Riding with two errors on an obstacle, William Steinkraus / United States, four points of failure in the moat. Various settings in ZL. Award ceremony.

09th Munich: closing ceremony the label with text: Munich 1972. Enter the athletes in the stadium for the last time. Athletes dance in the stadium. Avery Brundage speaks German and English o-ton: "repealed with tradition, I call upon the youth of all countries to assemble four years from now at Montreal. The time of parting is come. "We go back to our home and call to you all: good bye!" The Olympic flame goes out. The Olympic flag is brought down. 8 men to get the flag. A sign lights up, text: Montreal 1976.

Mount Olympus. Competitions origin: INA pool high jump women: Ulrike Meyfarth origin: INA-pool 4 x 100m women: Staf. d. women Germany origin: INA pool hockey final: German team origin: INA pool boxes: Dieris Kapoor, BRD, gold origin: INA pool 1500 m women: Bragina, USSR, gold origin: INA pool Marathon: Frank Shorter, United States, gold origin: INA pool riding: German team in the price of the Nations, gold origin: INA pool closing ceremony origin: INA pool at the beginning and end of total length

Here in Munich - XX. Olympic Games 'the games must go on' - the games need to be continued, after the violent deaths of Israeli athletes in Munich had decided Avery Brundage and the IOC. Politically motivated terrorist should be no more than the dream of the unifying idea of sport. The majority of the athletes accepted the controversial decision. The battle for the 364 gold medals that were awarded in Munich, began again. The exposure to the Olympians 'faster, higher, further' set new standards for human performance in Munich. 84 Olympic records and 50 world records have been set up.

Sensations: The award 'sensational' earned the 16-year old student Ulrike Meyfarth from Wesseling most in the high jump. By 7 cm, she improved her own best performance, set the world record with 1.92 m, and won the Olympic gold as an outsider. Faster than the favourite girls from East Germany, the German Quartet Christiane Krause, Ingrid Mahi-Becker, Annegret Richter and Heide Rosendahl sprinted the goal against. From the Flash start up to the exact changes, all agreed. One meter lead for Heide Rosendahl at the last change before the world's best sprinter Renate Stecher. That was enough for the victory in a world record time of 42.8 seconds.
We show the decisive last change and the gripping finale of this unexpected triumph them once again in slow motion.
In Tokyo and Mexico, Dieter Kottysch from Hamburg, (in the dark shirt) was eliminated in the preliminary rounds. In Munich, he reached what had succeeded any German Boxer before him after 1945: won a gold medal, Kapoor was not among the Favorites in the middleweight, but fought concentrated and fearless as rare in the 250th and last fight of his career of the Boxer. With 3:2 points, he finally won the fight against the Poland Rudkowsky. The jubilation was limitless.

tortures: Hardly possible held performance and expect great Kräfteverschliss - world record and collapse: the Poles in the modern competitive sports are. In Munich, perhaps most impressive, running the women documented at the 1500 m. For the third time during the games is running the Russian Bragina on their competitors and of. Ellen Tittel from Leverkusen. the runner with the third fastest time collapsed when it goes into the final round. Stomach cramps forced her to surrender. Bragina take the gold medal in a new world record time, four minutes, 1.4 seconds. Physical exertion and nervous strain were stronger than the desire to be with front for Ellen Tittel.
76 runners were at the start of the marathon run, the course of suffering. After her eye with a medical certificate proof of Health Fitness had. 42 km through Munich, where it is at its most beautiful. 'I thought so early in the race nobody wants to follow you - if you now go to the top, you can get from the dust.' At km 30, 24 year old American law student born in Munich, Frank Shorter had already a lead of more than a minute. ' The last few kilometres - that is how slowly die. It's just that it takes little longer with you than the other. Then you can win. ' Two hours 12 blade and it had reached 19.8 seconds after liftoff shorter. Again, a gold medal for the United States. Long after the awards ceremony, when a Gewinnter showed the end of beautiful summer days in Munich, dos entered the last runner field stadium. But even Maurice Charlotin from Haiti asked achieved his goal.
The best riders from 8 countries at the cost of the Nations were rivals at the last competition of the XX-th Olympic Games. Hans Günther Winkler won his fifth gold medal on the Munich course. William Steinkraus from United States the Americans secured the Silver Medal with a zero-fault ride in the first round and in the second with just four errors on the moat. The Italian secured the bronze medal.

Closing ceremony in the shadow of the drama: after 17 days of sporting disputes Munich passed its guests. The athletes in the crowded Stadium in front of an audience, it - it was said often - give and a medal for his competence, fairness, and frost all joy würdden competed for the last time.
The shadow who had blacked out the idea of 'Serene Olympics' after the massacre, remained. 85 IOC President Avery Brundage, who will retire after the games from its offices, the XX. Olympics officially ended.
' Repealed with tradition, I call upon the youth of all countries to assemble four years from now at Montreal. The time of parting is come. We return to our homes and call to you all: good bye!'
In Munich, the Olympic flame went out, in Nontreal it to shine again in four years. Doubts about the sense of the Olympic Games have increased. When the International Olympic Committee, the athletes and the sports-interested in all over the world but still believe in the unifying power of sport seems to predominate.

Date of Release:

12.09.1972

Year of Production:

1972

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Ina-Pool

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German