The Big Game (1942)

Movie
Original title	The big game
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1942
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Robert Adolf Stemmle
script	Toni Huppertz , Richard Kirn , Robert Adolf Stemmle
production	Oskar Marion
music	Michael Jary
camera	Bruno Stephan , Japp Swart , Erich Rossel
occupation
René Deltgen : Werner Fehling Gustav Knuth : Karl Wildbrandt Heinz Engelmann : Jupp Jäger, goalkeeper Josef Sieber : Father Gabler Maria Andergast : Annemarie Sand Karl Schönböck : Photographer Richter Ruth Lommel : saleswoman Flora Tietze Wolfgang Staudte : Fritz Eysoldt Lucy Millowitsch : Mrs. Eysoldt Hilde Jansen : Grete Gabler Rolf Wernicke : broadcaster Herbert Klatt : Bruno Mielke

The big game is a German sports film from 1942. Directed by Robert Adolf Stemmle .

action

Werner Fehling is an excellent center forward. As a substitute for a sick player, he is just the thing for the up-and-coming football club Gloria 03. But he endangers the team's solidarity by hooking up with Grete Gabler, the daughter of a club board member and the girlfriend of Gloria goalkeeper Jupp Jäger. The fight for the love of the beloved comes to a head just when the club is on the verge of its greatest triumph: the final of the German soccer championship in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin in 1936. One quickly gets involved because of the rivalry between the two, which is also played on the field Opponents against FC Nord with two goals behind. At half time, emotions boil in the cabin ...

Production notes

Filming began on September 8, 1941 and ended in early December of the same year. The strip, which was mainly shot in black and white, also had color sequences that were made by Erich Rossel and Japp Swart on June 22, 1941 at the final of the German championship between Rapid Wien and FC Schalke 04 . The film structures were designed by Herbert Hochreiter , the costumes by Maria Pommer-Uhlig. Oskar Marion was in charge of production, Bruno Balz wrote the lyrics to Michael Jary's music .

The production costs amounted to 1.64 million Reichsmarks , the box office results by April 1943 were 3.28 million RM. This made The Big Game a huge box office success.

backgrounds

• Sepp Herberger , then Reich coach and later national coach of the German national soccer team , and heavyweight boxing world champion Max Schmeling can be seen as spectators in this film.
• The following football players (club at the time of shooting) were used:
  • Hans Appel ( Berliner SV 92 )
  • Erich Goede (Berliner SV 92)
  • Helmut Jahn (Berliner SV 92)
  • Fritz Balogh ( VfL Neckarau )
  • Hermann Eppenhoff ( FC Schalke 04 )
  • Rudolf Gellesch (FC Schalke 04)
  • Otto Tibulski (FC Schalke 04)
  • Andreas Kupfer ( Schweinfurt 05 )
  • Karl Miller ( Dresdner SC )
  • Fritz Walter ( 1. FC Kaiserslautern )
  • Ernst Lehner ( Blue-White 90 Berlin )
  • Johann Herberger (Blue-White 90 Berlin)
  • Gerhard Graf (Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin)
  • Kurt Hoffmann (soccer player) (Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin)
  • Waldemar Seibert (Blue-White 90 Berlin)
  • Hermann "Manne" Kästner ( Tennis Borussia Berlin )
  • Bauernfeind ( club unknown )
  • Karel ( club unknown )
  • Nickel ( club unknown )

literature

• Herberger, Steffen L .: Johann Herberger - A life for football (2010), http://www.eintracht-archiv.de/1939/jherberger_biographie.pdf
• Herzog, Markwart (Ed.): Football at the time of National Socialism: Everyday life, media, arts, stars (2008), ISBN 978-3-17-020103-3

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich J. Klaus: German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 59 (021.42), Berlin 2001
2. ^ German sound films, 12th year 1942/43. P. 59 f.

Web links

• The big game in the Internet Movie Database (English)