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The Big Game
Directed byRobert A. Stemmle
Written byToni Huppertz
Richard Kirn
Robert A. Stemmle
StarringRené Deltgen
Gustav Knuth
Heinz Engelmann
CinematographyErich Rossel
Bruno Stephan
Edited byLudolf Grisebach
Frieda Zillich
Music byMichael Jary
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
10 July 1942
Running time
85 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Das große Spiel (English: The Big Game) is a 1942 German sports film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth and Heinz Engelmann. It featured famous German footballers of the era. National coach Sepp Herberger arranged for many German international footballers to be recalled from fighting in the Second World War, obstensibly to improve the quality of the film, but actually to try to protect them from the horrors of war.[1]

Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor. The sets were designed by art directors Gerbert Hochreiter and Walter Schlick.

Partial cast

Bibliography

  • Hesse-Lichtenbeger, Ulrich. Tor!: The Story of German Football. WSC Books, 2003.

References

  1. ^ Hesse-Lichtenbeger p.91-92


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