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German World Cup film scores at the box office
2006-10-09
A documentary following host nation Germany's team at this year's World Cup is topping the German box office charts after almost one million people saw it in the first few days, figures showed. "Deutschland: Ein Sommermaerchen" (Germany: A Summer Fairytale) follows coach Jurgen Klinsmann's squad in hotels, on training grounds and in matches in their unexpected progress to the semi-finals where they were knocked out by eventual winners Italy. Klinsmann is shown giving an inspirational team talk before the penalty shootout victory over Argentina in the quarter-finals while, in a lighter moment, Germany and Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann asks Chancellor Angela Merkel when she is going to cut taxes. The film was made by German filmmaker Soenke Wortmann who edited down 100 hours of footage he shot on a handheld camera. Its audience will be further swelled when it goes on release in Switzerland and Austria soon. All receipts from the film will go to the SOS Children's Villages charity, which in collaboration with world governing body FIFA is seeking to build six villages in Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Ukraine and Vietnam. Muzi.com News
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