| The Final Game | |
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| Written by | Sven Burgemeister |
| Directed by | Sigi Rothemund |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Dominic Roth |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| Production | |
| Producers |
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| Cinematography | Dragan Rogulj |
| Editor | Andreas Herzog |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Release | 9 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
- Das Finale, TV-Film, 1998 | crew united
- prisma.de: Das Finale
- Das Finale (Fernsehfilm) - Tittelbach.tv
- actionlex.de > Das Finale Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
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