The best women in the world
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The best women in the world |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Britta Becker |
| production |
Tom Spieß Sönke Wortmann |
| music | Christoph Zirngibl |
| camera | Britta Becker, Ulrike Sülzle |
| cut | André Hammesfahr |
| occupation | |
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The best women in the world is a documentary by director Britta Becker from the year 2008 . The film was produced by the Cologne company Little Shark Entertainment and the WDR .
action
The director accompanies the German women's national soccer team on their way to winning the 2007 women's soccer world championship . From the training camps in June 2007 to the first World Cup game to the victory celebration at the Frankfurt Römer , she looks over the shoulders of the players and experiences how some of them are urged by the referees to cut their long fingernails before the game and watch games with them of the opponents on television and documented their concentration in the dressing room before the game.
Britta Becker also accompanies the team in their leisure activities and has personal conversations with the players. In these interview sequences, the players tell about their lives as footballers, provide background information on women's football and bring to light various anecdotes from their own experiences. Sonja Fuss , for example, relates that when she was young she played under a false name in a boys' team for a year. Birgit Prinz, in turn, explains her attitude towards the role of the “star” she does not want to be: “To be known, to have power, to have money. This is not what I am striving for, even if it seems to be trendy in society. "
background
production
The director and the team met during the Algarve Cup in March 2007 in Portugal . A short film was made during the tournament, which received a positive response from the team. As a result, it was decided to make a film about the World Cup. The goal was not to copy the film Germany. To make a summer fairy tale about the German men's national team during the 2006 World Cup . Becker wanted to get closer to the players because most national players in Germany are not well known.
A total of 120 hours of footage was recorded, which was cut to 90 minutes. The film's producers were Tom Spieß and Sönke Wortmann, who had already worked on the documentary “Germany. A summer fairy tale ”were responsible. The production of the film was funded by the world football association FIFA .
National coach Silvia Neid explained that the aim and the idea of the film was to make the national players better known.
Recovery
In contrast to the film “Germany. A summer fairy tale ”“ The best women in the world ”was not shown in the regular cinema program. The world premiere took place in front of 200 invited guests on December 17, 2007 in Frankfurt's CineStar Metropolis. On January 2, 2008, the ARD showed the film for the first time on television . 1.96 million viewers meant a market share of 8.2 percent. On May 23, 2008 the film will be available on DVD .
Reviews
Steffen Gerth from Spiegel Online described the best women in the world as an alternative to the summer fairy tale: "In her successful TV documentary" The best women in the world "Britta Becker tells the story of the DFB women's World Cup victory in China and shows the soccer players as sympathetic realists. ”, but criticized the broadcast date as a“ cheek ”. Bastian Henrichs acknowledges in the taz that the film does not focus on the tournament alone, but also provides background information on women's football. The Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten see the film in a similarly positive way , which "beneficially also offers team athletes a stage who, in addition to their favorite occupation, can express thoughts in a remarkably reflected manner that are not limited by markings on the playing field."
Web links
- The best women in the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The best women in the world at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ The best women in the world - Amazon.de . Amazon's website . Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- ↑ giessener-anzeiger.de: view women ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ brikada.de: Director Britta Becker: "You could feel the tension directly" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ faz.net: It's the goals that make you happy
- ↑ dfb.de. ARD showed "The best women in the world"
- ↑ Elke Kimmlinger: The world champions in the first. In: wdr-mediagroup.de. Archived from the original on December 19, 2007 ; Retrieved August 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Spiegel Online : With a broad chest , December 18, 2007, found on January 2, 2008.
- ↑ taz.de: Summer fairy tale, later
- ↑ pnn.de: Football World Cup as a part-time job ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
