Katharina Wackernagel Movies
German filmmaker and former professional footballer (read: soccer player) Sönke Wortmann directs the family sports drama Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern). The title is in reference to the unexpected German victory over the Hungarians at the 1954 World Cup in Bern, Switzerland. In the working-class Ruhr region of West Germany, the Lubanski family eagerly awaits husband and father Richard (Peter Lohmeyer) to be released from the Soviet POW camp. During his absence, mother Christa (Johanna Gastdorf) and daughter Ingrid (Birthe Wolter) have started up their own business, while son Matthias (Louis Klamroth) has developed an interest in soccer. He idolizes local player Helmut Rahn, but his father doesn't approve of it. Meanwhile, sports journalist Paul Ackermann (Lucas Gregorowicz) heads to Switzerland to cover the World Cup events. The finale at the climactic soccer game was re-created with professional players from the German Football Liga along with a 3-D stadium and CGI crowd. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Starring:
- Louis Klamroth, Peter Lohmeyer, (more)
- 2008
With its unmistakable echoes of Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road, the German road movie-buddy comedy Sheep and Chips witnesses the friendship that evolves between two radically different men. Fuchs (Peter Jordan) is a genial foot control agent who spends his work days visiting a series of snack bars in Dithmarschen, Northern Germany and instilling order. Meanwhile, Tillmann Koch (Axel Prahl) - Fuchs's boss's brother and an ill-tempered alcoholic - gives up on the possibility of a happy life abroad and returns home to Dithmarschen to prove himself. Fuchs would love nothing more than to prove himself well suited for a job transfer to the big city, and that opportunity materializes when Tillman is assigned by the company to join Fuchs on an important business trip. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Axel Prahl, Peter Jordan, (more)
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