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Rochus Hahn (writer)
Sönke Wortmann (writer)
Release Date:
16 October 2003 (Germany) more
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The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two... more | add synopsis
Awards:
10 wins & 5 nominations more
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A good and entertaining film more (24 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Louis Klamroth | ... | Matthias Lubanski |
| Peter Lohmeyer | ... | Richard Lubanski |
| Johanna Gastdorf | ... | Christa Lubanski |
| Mirko Lang | ... | Bruno Lubanski |
| Birthe Wolter | ... | Ingrid Lubanski |
| Katharina Wackernagel | ... | Annette Ackermann |
| Lukas Gregorowicz | ... | Paul Ackermann (as Lucas Gregorowicz) |
| Péter Franke | ... | Sepp Herberger (as Peter Franke) |
| Sascha Göpel | ... | Helmut Rahn |
| Knut Hartwig | ... | Fritz Walter |
| Holger Dexne | ... | Horst Eckel |
 | Simon Verhoeven | ... | Ottmar Walter |
 | Jo Stock | ... | Toni Turek |
| Martin Bretschneider | ... | Hans Schäfer |
| Christian Broos | ... | Werner Kohlmeyer (Im Endspiel) |
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The Miracle of Bern (International: English title)
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118 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:PG | Spain:7 | Finland:K-7 | South Korea:All | UK:PG | Germany:6 | Netherlands:MG6 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13 | Singapore:PG | Brazil:Livre
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Director Sönke Wortmann played football himself in the second football-league in germany for SpVgg Erkenschwick and Westfalia Herne. more
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Errors in geography: When Matthias and his father travel from Essen to Bern, they drive through some kind of mountainous area, apparently the Alps. But both, Essen and Bern, are located north of the Alps, so there shouldn't be any mountains... more
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Ja, so fängt es immer an more
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I just watched "Das Wunder von Bern" and I must admit it is really a good film, not only for football fans (for you Americans: we Europeans say football for soccer). The film is not just a sports drama but deals more with the atmosphere in post war Germany and with the problems and aspirations the people had during that period and what the winning of the world championship by the German national football team meant for the regular people.
Actually this atmosphere is covered excellently. The film shows that the people were still recovering from WW2. There are heaps of debris in the streets from houses destroyed during air raids and many men are still kept as POWs so that the women have to take care for the family. The children play football with a makeshift ball, and most people don't seem to have much money. Everything is shown in subdued colors which really contribute to this mood. Although the story is set in Essen, a city in the main industrial and mining region of Germany, it could have happened everywhere in Germany.
The colors only change during the scenes in Switzerland, where the world championship took place. In fact those scenes are shot in bright and friendly colors. And also the settings are quite different from those in Essen: whereas the location in Essen consists of small apartment buildings, narrow streets and those aforementioned subdued colors, everything in Switzerland seems to be posh and spacious.
Even though the actors are not exactly great names in German cinema, they are quite good. As far as I know the actors who play the members of the German national football team were cast not only for their acting skills but also for their ability to play football. Thanks to that aspect the football scenes are quite convincing (although the spectators in the football stadium in Bern look really fake).
What I really liked though was the fact that the filmmakers used the original radio commentary from reporter Herbert Zimmermann, which is legendary. Every German football fan knows the important parts of his commentary by heart.
All in all a good and entertaining film, although I didn't really like the ending.