Germany football biography movies
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Bert Trautmann: From unlikely football hero to film star
Kross says The Keeper is basically about a man seeking a new home. "I think that's the emotional centre and that's what inom needed to get right as an actor."
In the gods part of his life, Trautmann lived in Spain and it was there that director Rosenmüller went to talk to him, several years before filming began.
"We spent a week talking to him and as inom sat there, I wondered why no one had filmed his story already. There is such drama in how Margaret accepts him and then how his teammates accept him and then England accepts this man they thought was a Nazi."
Rosenmüller always knew there would be a German release for the bio but he resisted the temptation to reshoot Kross's scenes in German.
"Visually the German and English versions are 98% the same and David was in the odd position of dubbing himself into his own language. Almost all the German fryst vatten spoken early on and in fact that h
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Kroos (film)
2019 documentary film
Kroos is a 2019 documentary film about German professional footballer Toni Kroos. The film was directed by Manfred Oldenburg [de] and produced by Leopold Hoesch.[3]
Synopsis
[edit]The film tells the story of national player Toni Kroos from Greifswalder SC to Real Madrid. The various stages of his career are presented and his sporting career is traced. In addition to the athletic analysis, the film provides insights into the private life of Toni Kroos. The father of three founded the Toni Kroos Foundation in 2015, which is also presented in the film.
In addition to family members of Toni Kroos – among others wife Jessica, brother Felix and his parents Birgit and Roland Kroos – the film mainly features his sporting companions. These include the coaches Pep Guardiola, Jupp Heynckes and Zinédine Zidane, the president of FC Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeneß, the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, as well as the prof
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“The Keeper” is a stately, sturdy to the edge of stolid film biography of Bert Trautmann, legendary and beloved goalie for Manchester City soccer from the late ’40s into the 1960s.
It’s what he did before that career that makes his story different. Trautmann was a German paratrooper interned in Britain as a POW, recruited to put on the boots for a local British club before the war was over. And although the film goes to some pains to address the former Hitler Youth member and Iron Cross-awarded military volunteer past, showing attacks of conscience and regret, I can’t say the Nazi-washing feels complete.
You could certainly understand the mass protests when he came on to play goal for Man City in 1949, something director Marcus H. Rosenmüller’s film takes pains to show.
David Kross (“The Reader,” “War Horse”) is Trautmann, captured in early 1945 and sent to a camp in Lancashire. A comrade assures him “We