Germany 2003
Language: German
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Camera: Tom Fährmann
Script: Sönke Wortmann, Rochus Hahn
Editor: Ueli Christen
Cast: Louis Klamroth, Peter Lohmeyer, Lucas Gregorowicz, Katharina Wackernagel
Producer: Sönke Wortmann, Hanno Huth, Tom Spiess
Music: Marcel Barsotti
Sound: Dirk Jacob
Distributer: Senator Film Verleih
Lenght: 118 Min
Color: bw, color
Age Limit: <

Summer 1954: in the Ruhr area eleven-year-old Matthias, full of hope and worry, awaits the return of his father from his Soviet war captivity. At the same time in Switzerland, the best football teams in the world are playing each other. Marcel Barsotti: ”A great film distributor, a great cinema start, the expectations for the music were immense when one considers that in fact Hans Zimmer was planned for the music. I decided against Hollywood music, for neither I nor Sönke Wortemanna wanted that so we decided rather on classical film music, but with a lot of pathos. The film about the founding myth of the old Federal Republic enticed almost four million people into the cinema.