Munich follows Avner Kaufman, a Mossad agent tasked with leading a secret operation to assassinate the Palestinian operatives behind the deadly 1972 Munich Olympic Games attack. As the mission unfolds across Europe, Avner and his team begin to grapple with deep moral questions about justice, vengeance, and the personal cost of violence. Spielberg's gripping thriller is both a tense espionage drama and a profound meditation on the cycle of retaliation and its human consequences.
Spielberg films the 1972 Olympics aftermath as the Mossad operation that broke its agents. The film is the spy genre as moral exhaustion.