The Final Game (1998 film)

Last updated

The Final Game
Directed by Sigi Rothemund
Written bySven Burgemeister
Produced by
  • Timo Berndt
  • Borris Brandt
Starring
CinematographyDragan Rogulj
Edited byAndreas Herzog
Music byDominic Roth
Production
companies
  • TV-60 Filmproduktion
  • Pro 7
  • Die Nefzers
  • Nitro-Film Medienproduktion GmbH
Distributed by
  • Media Cooperation One (MC-One)
  • Snp
Release date
  • 9 June 1998 (1998-06-09)
Running time
93 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

The Final Game is a 1998 German thriller film directed by Sigi Rothemund, [1] it was written by Timo Berndt and Borris Brandt. [2]

Contents

Plot

70,000 football-fans stream into Berlin Olympic Stadium in order to see the final of the DFB-Pokal. The men of the security center pay no attention to what is happening. In front of them several armed terrorists attack the central, five hostages arrive in the hands of gangsters. Kant, the gang leader, orders his men to close and lock all exit doors, because the game ends in a few minutes. It comes under the stadium visitors to a mass panic. Security Chief Bender has no chance to stop Kant alone, in addition he paid Kant using an old account.

Cast

Production

Some of the scenes were shot on 1 March 1998 in the Bundesliga match Hertha BSC against Hansa Rostock. [3]

Release

It premiered on 9 June 1998 as TV production on Pro 7 under the German title Das Finale. [4] In Hungary had a theatrical release on 12 April 2005.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1954 FIFA World Cup</span> Association football tournament in Switzerland

The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerland was selected as the host country in July 1946. At the tournament several all-time records for goal-scoring were set, including the highest average number of goals scored per game. The tournament was won by West Germany, who defeated tournament favourites Hungary 3–2 in the final, their first World Cup title.

Endgame, Endgames, End Game, End Games, or similar variations may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jürgen Prochnow</span> German-American actor

Jürgen Prochnow is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" in the 1981 war film Das Boot.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexandra Maria Lara</span> Romanian-German actress

Alexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-German actress who has appeared in Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm (2017).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maria Furtwängler</span> German physician and actress

Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a German physician and television actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hanns Zischler</span> German actor

Hanns Zischler is a German actor known for his portrayal of Hans in Steven Spielberg's film Munich and the Russian Mafia's boss Igor Sergeyevich Baklanov in the 1996 pilot movie Der Clown. According to the Internet Movie Database, Zischler has appeared in 171 movies since 1968.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ulrich Matthes</span> German actor

Ulrich Matthes is a German actor. He is best known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christina Plate</span> German actress (born 1965)

Christina Plate is a German actress. She has appeared in many German films, TV films and series.

Lena Stolze is a German television and film actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marc Rothemund</span> German film director (born 1968)

Marc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes for TV series. His first feature film was the 1998 production Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit. In 2005 he directed the film Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, written by Fred Breinersdorfer, which was nominated for the 78th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film and received numerous other awards, including the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margit Carstensen</span> German actress (1940–2023)

Margit Carstensen was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She appeared in films of directors Christoph Schlingensief and Leander Haußmann and on television in Tatort.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Irm Hermann</span> German actress (1942–2020)

Irmgard Hermann was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who cast her in many of his films. She was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis for playing Irmgard Epp in Fassbinder's The Merchant of Four Seasons, and again for appearing as Else Gebel, a woman in prison with Sophie Scholl, in Percy Adlon's Fünf letzte Tage.

<i>Rio das Mortes</i> (film) 1971 film

Rio das Mortes is a 1971 color film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. One of the early Fassbinder films it stars Hanna Schygulla as Hanna, Michael König as Michael/Mike and Günther Kaufmann as Gunther.

<i>Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit</i> 1998 German romantic comedy film

Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit is a 1998 German romantic comedy film. It earned the director Marc Rothemund a Bavarian Film Award for "Best Young Director". It was the second highest grossing domestic film in Germany in 1998. The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Uwe Kockisch</span>

Uwe Kockisch in Cottbus, Germany) is a German stage, screen and television actor.

The Jupiter Award is a German annual cinema award. It is Germany's biggest audience award for cinema and TV and is awarded annually by Cinema magazine and TV Spielfilm in eleven categories. The Jupiter awards began in 1979.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Annett Renneberg</span> German actress

Annett Renneberg (born 16 March 1978 in Rudolstadt) is a German actress and singer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martin Moszkowicz</span> German film producer (born 1958)

Martin Moszkowicz is a German film producer. He is the chairman of the executive board at Constantin Film. On 6 March 2019, he was appointed honorary professor at University of Television and Film Munich.

Margit Geissler (1958–2016) was a German model, film and television actress. She co-hosted the 1985 competition to select the German entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. She was married to the film director Sigi Rothemund.

Eurovision Song Contest 2020 – das deutsche Finale live aus der Elbphilharmonie was a one-off music competition in the Eurovision format, organised and broadcast by the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). It served as an alternative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was planned to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References