''The Big Game'' (german: Das große Spiel) is a 1942
German
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sports film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and their sport), or follower of sport (and the spor ...
directed by
Robert A. Stemmle
Robert Adolf Stemmle (10 June 1903 – 24 February 1974) was a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 80 films between 1932 and 1967. He also directed 46 films between 1934 and 1970. His 1959 film '' Die unvollkommen ...
and starring
René Deltgen
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance ...
,
Gustav Knuth
Gustav Knuth (7 July 1901 – 1 February 1987) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1935 and 1982 and starred in the TV series '' Alle meine Tiere''. He was married to the actress Elisabeth Lennartz.
Selected ...
and
Heinz Engelmann
Heinz Engelmann (1911–1996) was a German film actor. He was married to the actress Gertrud Meyen.
Selected filmography
* '' D III 88'' (1939)
* '' Drei Unteroffiziere'' (1939)
* ''Congo Express'' (1939)
* ''The Girl at the Reception'' (1940)
* ...
. It featured famous German footballers of the era. National coach
Sepp Herberger
Josef "Sepp" Herberger (28 March 1897 – 28 April 1977) was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West German national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, a match later dubbed '' The Mir ...
arranged for many German international footballers to be recalled from fighting in the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, ostensibly to improve the quality of the film, but actually to try to protect them from the horrors of war.
[Hesse-Lichtenbeger p. 91–92]
Some sequences of the film are in
Agfacolor
An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway.
An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France.
An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Hungary.
An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane in Poland.
An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 fr ...
. The sets were designed by
art directors Gerbert Hochreiter and
Walter Schlick.
Partial cast
Bibliography
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See also
*
List of association football films
The following is a list of films featuring association football.
List
See also
*List of sports films
*List of highest-grossing sports films
References
{{Sports films
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References
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1942 films
1940s sports films
German sports films
Films of Nazi Germany
1940s German-language films
Films directed by Robert A. Stemmle
German association football films
Bavaria Film films
German black-and-white films
Cockfighting in film
1940s German films
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