Playoff (2011)
Drama,Sport | 107 min
Movie Info
- Directors : Eran Riklis
- Writers : Gidon Maron • David Akerman
- Languages : English,German,Turkish,Hebrew
- Original Title : Playoff
- countries : Germany,France,Israel
- Languages : English,German,Turkish,Hebrew
- Genres : Drama,Sport
- IMDB Url : (tt1632722)
- Release Date : 2012-03-09
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Movie Story
Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel’s first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team – of all people! – into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany – where he was born before the war – means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren’t as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz – and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s – it is …
Actors
Udo Happel
News Speaker
Karl Jürgen Sihler
Repoter VIP
Susanne Tischler
Saleswoman Watchstore
Andreas Dobberkau
Driver
Momo Schmitz
Clerk
Janine Bernstein
Woman Night Club
Thomas Lehmann
Policeman
Arne Habeck
Policeman
Michael Benthin
Chestnutseller
Peter Steitz
Border Police Man
Oliver Klös
Cameraman
Steffen Müller
Reporter VIP
Verena Wüstkamp
Reporter - VIP Room
Mathias von Heydebrand
Dieter
Volker Metzker
Reporter Taxi
Yehuda Almagor
Shimi
Volker Metzger
Reporter Taxi
Andreas Eufinger
Ulrich
Irm Hermann
Bertha
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