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1998 film

The Final Game
Written bySven Burgemeister
Directed bySigi Rothemund
Starring
Music byDominic Roth
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
Production
Producers
  • Timo Berndt
  • Borris Brandt
CinematographyDragan Rogulj
EditorAndreas Herzog
Running time93 minutes
Production companies
  • TV-60 Filmproduktion
  • Pro 7
  • Die Nefzers
  • Nitro-Film Medienproduktion GmbH
Original release
Release9 June 1998 (1998-06-09)

The Final Game is a 1998 German thriller film directed by Sigi Rothemund. It was written by Timo Berndt and Borris Brandt.

Plot

70,000 football fans have streamed into the Berlin Olympic Stadium to see the final of the DFB-Pokal.

Suddenly the stadium's security center is attacked by armed terrorists who take five people hostage.

A few minutes before the end of the game the gang leader, Kant, orders his men to close and lock all exits from the stadium.

A mass panic ensues among the crowd.

Tobias Bender, the head of stadium security, rises to the challenge.

Cast

  • Francis Fulton-Smith as Tobias Bender
  • Christoph Waltz as Kant
  • Axel Milberg as Deutler
  • Nele Mueller-Stöfen as Jacky
  • Thure Riefenstein as Flamenco
  • Armin Rohde as Harry Andresen
  • Andreas Mannkopff
  • Marek Wlodarczyk
  • Veit Stübner
  • Michael Schiller
  • Ottokar Lehrner
  • Alexander Reed
  • Steffen Groth
  • Peer Martiny
  • Michael Ehnert as SEK-Chef Fischer
  • Igor Jeftic
  • Nina Rothemund
  • Frank Zimmermann as Polizist

Production

Some of the scenes were shot on 1 March 1998 at the Bundesliga match Hertha BSC against Hansa Rostock.

Release

The film premiered on 9 June 1998 as a TV movie on Pro 7 under the German title Das Finale. In Hungary it had a theatrical release on 12 April 2005.

References

  1. Das Finale, TV-Film, 1998 | crew united
  2. prisma.de: Das Finale
  3. Das Finale (Fernsehfilm) - Tittelbach.tv
  4. actionlex.de > Das Finale Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine

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