The Miracle of Bern (2003)

Original title

Das Wunder von Bern

Directed by

Sönke Wortmann

Genre

drama film, comedy film, association football film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

6

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 178 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy in post-war Germany struggles with his distant father who returns from a Soviet prison camp. The family finds a common cause when the West German national soccer team makes a surprising run at the 1954 World Cup.

upliftingheartwarmingbittersweetsentimentalhopefulnostalgicgentle

What happens

The Miracle of Bern (German: Das Wunder von Bern) is a 2003 film by Sönke Wortmann, which tells the story of a German family (particularly of a young boy and his depressed ex-POW father) and the unexpected West German miracle victory in the 1954 World Cup Final in Bern, Switzerland. The film can be regarded as a portrait of post-war Germany. With over 6 million cinema visitors, it is one of Germany's best-selling films. Among those attending the première were Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Peer Steinbrück, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Otto Schily, Federal Minister of the Interior (a position whose holder is also informally known as Minister for Sports). Since November 2014, Hamburg's new musical theatre Theater an der Elbe is home to a successful musical production of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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