We world champions - a football fairy tale
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| Original title | We world champions - a football fairy tale |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Sebastian Dehnhardt |
| script | Sebastian Dehnhardt, Guido Knopp , Manfred Oldenburg |
| production | Sebastian Dehnhart, Leopold Hoesch |
| camera | Oliver Herles |
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Wir Weltmeister - a football fairy tale is a German fiction film from 2006 by Sebastian Dehnhardt , which tells German football history, in particular the world championship title based on the story of a couple who experienced their high points when they won the title. The film mixes documentary and staged elements.
action
On July 4, 1954, Max and Anna met and fell in love as children in Mecklenburg . On this day, of all times, the German national team became sensationally world champions . However, Max's family fled west with him, so that he was separated from his girlfriend. But from now on he wants to see his Anna again and again because he believes in a cosmic football law: Germany can only become world champions if the two are united. And so a funny relationship with ups and downs develops between the two, which is always reflected in the German football landscape. And it reminds of those moments in German football history when Germany repeatedly seemed hopelessly inferior and unexpectedly won the title or won the final.
background
The film mixes great moments in German football history with the fictional relationship between Max and Anna. Emotional moments in the relationship often coincide with emotional moments in soccer games. Well-known figures from football history appear as interview partners, mixed with the questioning of the main characters.
criticism
“The subtitle makes it clear that" We World Champions "shouldn't be taken really seriously, especially not as a football fan. Then something can be won over to this obscure bastard, who is presented here by ZDF under the label Doku-Spiel. The amalgamation of documentary film material, interview sequences and staged game scenes is tempting to measure the film against documentary dramas à la Breloer. A comparison that cannot be upheld. In order to surround the World Cup history of the German national football team from 1954 with a fictional framework story, the dramaturgy had to be broken several times over the knee. It tells the German-German love story of Max and Anna, who are separated and reunited countless times, and somehow football usually has a hand in it. Uninspired clichés (the 68 flat-sharing community, the mobbing football fan) and wooden dialogues are juxtaposed with occasional, original ideas - for example when a wedding party gradually dissolves during the broadcast of the 82 Germany-France semi-final and moves in front of the television in the restaurant kitchen until the howling bride is left alone. The excerpts shown from the various World Cup tournaments are by and large well known. But then you repeatedly come across snippets of film that identify the filmmakers Guido Knopp and Sebastian Dehnhardt as truffle pigs. When choosing the interview partner, some almost forgotten heroes such as Wolfgang Weber or Jürgen Grabowski emerge from oblivion. "
Web links
- Champions we are - a football fairy tale in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791600/
- ↑ http://www.spielfilm.de/filme/2987310/wir-weltmeister-ein-fussballmaerchen
- ↑ a b http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7840/819260/wir-weltmeister-zdf-blas-ein-fussball-maerchen-zur-einstimmung-auf-die-wm-im-eigenen-land
- ↑ a b http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/wir-weltmeister-ein-fussball-maerchen/89946