The final

Movie
Original title	The final
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1998
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Sigi Rothemund
script	Timo Berndt , ; Boris Brandt
production	Sven Burgemeister
music	Dominic Roth
camera	Dragan Rogulj
cut	Andreas Herzog
occupation
	Francis Fulton-Smith : Tobias Bender; Christoph Waltz : Kant; Axel Milberg : Deutler; Nele Mueller-Stöfen : Jacky; Thure Riefenstein : Flamenco; Armin Rohde : Harry Andresen; Andreas Mannkopff : Ernst-Hermann; Nina Rothemund : Martina;

Das Finale is a German thriller from 1998 with Francis Fulton-Smith in the lead role, which was produced by tv60film for ProSieben .

action

During a cup final in the Berlin Olympic Stadium with 70,000 spectators, the central cash desk of the stadium is robbed. When the intruders are discovered, they take control of the security center and take the spectators hostage by locking the stadium gates. The head of security Tobias Bender, who was not in the headquarters, finally defeated the gangsters and thus prevented a mass panic at the end of the game.

Reviews

"Elaborately designed television thriller, which does not understand how to condense the essentially implausible plot into any genre-immanent logic and only convinces in a few staged dense approaches and thanks to theatrical accents."

- Lexicon of international film

“Fast-paced stunts, a psychologically sophisticated script and tense film music [...] make the finale worth seeing. Even if the individual figures are somewhat exaggerated and one-sided in their one-dimensionality. "

- prisma.de

background

The Bundesliga game between Hertha BSC and Hansa Rostock on March 1, 1998 served as the backdrop for the film . Many of the soccer game scenes visible in the film are also taken from this Bundesliga game.

Web links

The finals in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The final at filmportal.de
The final in the online film database

Individual evidence

↑ Certificate of release for the final . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2003 (PDF; test number: 88 871 DVD).
↑ The finale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 12, 2017 .
↑ The finale. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 12, 2017 .

[FSK-1] Certificate of release for the final . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2003 (PDF; test number: 88 871 DVD).

[2] The finale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 12, 2017 .

[3] The finale. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 12, 2017 .