The Big Game (1942)
1h 25m
Running Time
July 10, 1942Release Date
Plot.
A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a championship tournament due to illness; which leads to a big problem: who would be the perfect man to replace him? Werner Fehling appears to be the perfect replacement for the sick man. The problem is, he's a bitter rival of the goalkeeper, Jupp Jaeger. Both men love the same girl, Grete Gabler. Grete is the daughter of a senior member of the sports club, which is why she feels doubly under pressure not to do anything to jeopardize the success of the team.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
René Deltgen
Mittelstürmer Werner Fehling
Gustav Knuth
Trainer Karl Wildbrandt
Heinz Engelmann
Torwart Jupp Jäger
Karl Schönböck
Fotograf Richter
Maria Andergast
Annemarie Sand
Lucy Millowitsch
Frau Eysoldt
Robert A. Stemmle
Director
Josef Sieber
Gabler
Toni Huppertz
Writer
Ruth Lommel
Flora Tietze
Richard Kirn
Writer
Wolfgang Staudte
Fritz Eysoldt
Michael Jary
Composer
Erich Rossel
Cinematographer
Paul Henckels
SA-Ordner
Bruno Stephan
Cinematographer
Karl Ludwig Diehl
SS-Mann
Albert Florath
Pförtner
Lucie Höflich
Wirtin Frau Klebusch
Rudolf Schündler
Kretschmann
Hans Söhnker
Zuschauer
Armin Münch
Paul Kubalski
Oskar Marion
Producer
Ludolf Grisebach
Editor
Details.
Wiki.
The Big Game (German: Das große Spiel) 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, ostensibly to improve the quality of the film, but actually to try to protect them from the horrors of war.Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor. The sets were designed by art directors Gerbert Hochreiter and Walter Schlick.