The son of one of the Israeli athletes killed during the 1972 Olympics portrayed his father in the Steven Spielberg film Munich.

For aspiring Israeli actor Guri Weinberg, the big break in Hollywood was mixed with heartbreak. The 33-year-old appears in Steven Spielberg's new thriller "Munich" as his own father, Moshe Weinberg, a weightlifter who was the first of 11 athletes killed in a Palestinian guerrilla raid against Israel's delegation to the 1972 Olympic Games.

Of course I'm still reluctant to go see the film as I have heard that it really does an injustice to the Israeli side of the story. Weinberg's mother feels the same way.

"I didn't want people to see the film, despite the fact that my son acts in it," Mimi Weinberg told YNetNews.

"This film does not distinguish between those who murder peaceful civilians in their sleep and those who killed the murderers," she said. "With Jews like Spielberg and (screenwriter Tony) Kushner, who needs enemies?"

I don't feel quite that way as I think that Spielberg has done invaluable work so that future generations will know and understand the Holocaust and I imagine he has done tons of other philanthropic work as well. If anything, based on the relatively few people who've seen the film, if it did anything it reminded us of the days when political terrorism was shocking. One wonders what might have been if the response had been truly disproportionate. Seeking out the individual murderers was truly the least that Israel could have done in that situation.