''The Big Game'' () is a 1942
German
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* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
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 or a sports-related topic is prominently featured or is a focus of the plot. D ...
directed by
Robert A. Stemmle and starring
René Deltgen
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen (30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgish stage and film actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who port ...
,
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. 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 Germany 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 (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, 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
Agfa-Farbenplatte of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1933.
An Agfacolor slide of a café in Oslo, Norway, 1937.
An Agfacolor slide of Paris, France, 1937.
An Agfacolor slide of Stockholm, Sweden, 1938.
An Agfacolor slide, Hungary, 1938.
An Agf ...
. 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
References
External links
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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
Films scored by Michael Jary
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