Five days until the symbolically charged memorial game in Munich.

The men and women responsible for security at the Olympic stadium and the hotel of the Israeli football team "Halutzi Tel Aviv" are feeling tense.

The event is intended to commemorate the assassination of 1972 - the eleven Israeli athletes who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists fifty years ago and the German police whose amateurishness was responsible for the bloody end.

It should be a German-Israeli friendship festival.

But now there is evidence of an attack that was not discovered by an intelligence officer from Germany, but by Oren Simon (Yousef Sweid), a Mossad IT expert working at the Israeli embassy in Berlin, in an Arabic online forum.

A little film in the look of a computer game shows an attack on the stadium.

You have to take that seriously if Munich is not to experience another disaster like that of September 5, 1972.

Oren's boss Rafi Paz (Igal Naor) informs the Islamism expert Michael Hahn (Sebastian Rudolph) from the BKA, Hahn drags Simon against all regulations to the next meeting of the anti-terrorist center, then it rattles at BND & Co briefly in the box.

Highly exciting and atmospherically coherent

And the Israeli analyst takes the plane to Maria Köhler (Seyneb Saleh) in Munich.

The LKA officer with Lebanese roots is the second main character of the highly exciting, atmospherically enormously coherent series "Munich Games", written by the Israeli screenwriter Michal Aviram together with Martin Behnke.

At her first appearance, however, Köhler is still concerned with private matters.

But the six-parter quickly reaches operating temperature.

Someone manages to plant a bomb in the Olympic Stadium behind the police's back.

Someone threatens Jackie Igelski (Dov Glickman), the son of the Holocaust survivor and owner of the Israeli team, at the hotel check-in.

And when the sniffer dogs strike the stadium's catacombs, a memorable confrontation ensues between police officers and private security personnel.

Your gut feeling says you could be a terrorist, just like some of the men in the refugee home who forbid a young person from taking part in a class trip to a friendly game: "He has to learn how to deal with Zionists," they say.

However, you shouldn't rely on first impressions with "Munich Games".

The series creator Michal Aviram brings too much experience from her many years of work for "Fauda".

She also brings us as close to the characters as has been the case since 2015 in the tough yet touching story about an Israeli special forces unit and their Palestinian targets.

There is constant unrest

The Mossad agent Simon, who pragmatically shrugged off German misgivings and whose responsibility for the security of the Israeli team robs him of sleep at night, the LKA Frau Köhler, who was distracted by an affair with an informant, or the business ailing man who was adored by his team like a father Club boss - these are deeply human characters who could just as well appear in the next season of "Fauda".

And one could also imagine the soccer player Abed in “Fauda” if the actor Shadi Mar'i, who embodies him, didn't already mimic the delicate Hamas boy Walid there.

Abed arrives in Munich when he is actually needed in the delivery room at his pregnant wife's side, he climbs out of a team bus which is attacked by anti-Israeli demonstrators with paint bags, and only hours later the next incident occurs: a German police officer , who does not recognize the striker in the hotel corridor and thinks he is a suspect, pushes the Arab-Israeli to the ground.

There is constant unrest in “Munich Games”.

Even Jakub Bejnarowicz's camera is in constant motion, and the story, which is carried from one scene to the next by disturbingly restrained, slightly overdriven floating sounds by film musician Michael Kadelbach, swerves like a rabbit that knows its terrain better than any pursuer .

Should the game be canceled like the German-Dutch football game in Hanover in 2015?

Rather not, it would be a fatal signal.

The historical events are constantly present in the story: in the original images of the opening credits, in short conversations about the reason for the friendly match, on behalf of the mastermind of that time, Abu Daoud, who, in one of the many moments when events overturned, on a big banners being unfurled, or a number of scenes that allude to scenes fifty years ago.

But they do it unobtrusively, almost casually.

"Munich Games" (director: Philipp Kadelbach) is a story about the threats in the here and now, despite all the history in the rear-view mirror, and it really gets the pulse beating faster.

One would almost like to say: "Amusement Park Film", the production company of Malte Grunert, Daniel Brühl and Amelie von Kienlin,

fall back on Israeli experience in telling anti-terrorist stories just as eager to learn as the German security apparatus after 1972 on Israeli know-how in the fight against terror.

Fasten seat belts.

Munich Games

starts at 8:15 p.m. on Sky One on Sunday.