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Germany. A summer fairy tale is a German documentary film directed by Sönke Wortmann. It shows the German national team on the way to and at the Football World Cup 2006.

On 6 December 2006 at 20:15 clock the ARD showed the film for the first time on television. Around eleven million viewers watched the broadcast.

The title is a reference to Heinrich Heine's epic poem Germany. The Winter's Tale. In addition to the behind the scenes, this documentary shows a football enthusiastic Germany.

Content

Since the Confederations Cup 2005, Sönke Wortmann ( The Miracle of Bern ) and his cameraman Frank cracklings (Perfume ) as constant companions of the team here. The decision to be allowed to film during the 2006 World Cup, but fell later. As a member of the DFB delegation got Wortmann chance to shoot behind the scenes while cracklings was responsible for the exterior shots on the field.

Wortmann and cracklings accompanied the German national team during the preparation period and all countries and test games. At the beginning of the film shows the preparation for Sardinia and in Geneva, where, among others, also attended Michael Schumacher the national team. It follows the further course through the various WM episodes until the closing ceremony on the fan mile in Berlin.

The cameras caught an everyday situations of the players, the coaching staff and the team staff. The 2006 World Cup shows the film from the perspective of the DFB. Are behind the scenes, such as footage from the locker room, the team bus or the hotel rooms of the players, some of whom were allowed to come in several interviews about the film word for typical scenes. Wortmann filmed, among other Klinsmann's energetic, motivational speeches, the exuberant joy of celebrations and also the disappointment after losing the semi-final against Italy.

Background

The idea for the film came Wortmann through the documentation of the French film Les Yeux dans les Bleus (such as " eyes on the Blue " ) by Stephane Meunier. This film showed the French national football team on their way to the world title in 1998. Sönke Wortmann wanted to make a similar documentation. He inquired of a variety of people, but always got cancellations, particularly from the periphery of the then team manager Rudi Völler. When in 2004 Jürgen Klinsmann was coach, he asked these and after a long wait, the new national coach approved the project to.

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Production

Germany. A summer fairy tale, originally planned as a television production, developed due to the boisterous, summer World Cup atmosphere in Germany and the successes of the German team for the movie. From more than one hundred hours of footage Wortmann has edited together this movie with about 108 minutes of playing time. As a production name of the title was chosen The Scottish roses to avoid a premature publication in the media. On 3 October 2006, the day of German Unity, the movie was shown, among others, in the World Cup cities of Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Kaiserslautern in a preview, he ran regularly on 5 October 2006 in German cinemas on. The film made ​​it to first go to # 1 on the German cinema charts and attracted in the first week more than a million visitors in the cinemas. Two weeks later he had left with 2.7 million viewers of the Penguins as hitherto most successful documentary film at the German box office behind. Overall, the film looked nearly 4 million moviegoers.

The film was produced by Word 's company Little Shark Entertainment.

Utilization

The major cinema operators threatened with a boycott because the publication dates of cinema and television version too short subject in succession. Was financed the film to 100 percent of the WDR and WDR Media Group. There was disagreement about the date of the first publication on public television and the launch of the DVD. As a compromise, the value chain was stretched so that the ARD aired on 6 December 2006 the work at 20.15 clock. 10.46 million viewers watched the film on this occasion. This represented a market share of 31 percent.

The DVD Doppelbox appeared on 8 February 2007 in the trade and also reached # 1 on the German charts. In addition to the main movie DVD contains an additional DVD with ao 105 minutes previously unreleased scenes from Wortmann, who had received a total of 100 hours of footage.

At the request of a player euros per ticket or DVD is the joint project benefit 6 villages for 2006 by FIFA and SOS Children's Villages, from the proceeds.

Also came in October 2006 as an eponymous Paperback "World Cup Diary" by Sönke Wortmann and Christoph Biermann Kiepenheuer & Petrovich out.

Movie reviews

Florian main criticized in the newspaper Die Welt that the film never leave the surface. The German World Cup adventure would win on anecdotes, but lose its magic. Kathrin was Buchner from the star that Wortmann did not fabulous, but magically captured the euphoria of the summer. Also Reinhard Mohr from the mirror the film rated overwhelmingly positive and described him as touching and moving, but mostly unpretentious and juicy without melting, and certainly not patriotic sound tapestry. In the Sunday newspaper likened Peter Korte Wortmann's film with Stéphane Meunier documentation Les yeux dans les bleus over the title of the French national team at the 1998 World Cup and concludes " Wortmann filming the Klinsmann - time as you in the Völler era football played: much in width, often back to tentatively fixed at the top, only on result " ProSieben was about the double DVD ". purpose you get an idea of ​​the logistical effort of the whole company, the professionalism of the fitness instructors, psychologists and nutrition professionals. You get respect for Joachim Löw's tactical knowledge and Jürgen Klinsmann's motivation arts ".

Awards

  • Bambi 2006: Category Documentation
  • Leibniz -ring Hannover 2006: for Sönke Wortmann
  • Bavarian Film Award 2006: Audience Award
  • Grimme Award 2007: Category Information & Culture
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