Beckenbauer

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Samenvatting in het Engels

He is considered one of the most important athletes in football history. Franz Beckenbauer was the shining light of German football, won everything there was to win in club football as a player and coach, became world champion as a player and coach and, as the father of the "Summer Fairy Tale", brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany. He was also a pioneering advertising icon and an occasional singer and actor. The man whom everyone in his home country simply calls “Kaiser” shaped the image of the Federal Republic of Germany like no one else. The legendary footballer seems like a national treasure today, but little is known about the person behind the ball artist. Public knowledge of his private life is shaped by his long-term relationships with four women. The documentary, completed shortly before his death, uses archive material and prominent contemporary witnesses from sports, politics and entertainment to weave both facets into a look at a life's work with light and shadow.

Cast

F Franz BeckenbauerSelf (archive footage) G Günter NetzerSelf - Interviewee P Paul BreitnerSelf - Interviewee S Sepp MaierSelf - Interviewee L Lothar MatthäusSelf - Interviewee M Matthias SammerSelf - Interviewee H Harald SchmidtSelf - Interviewee J Joschka FischerSelf - Interviewee W Wolfgang SchäubleSelf - Interviewee O Otto SchilySelf - Interviewee W Walter BeckenbauerSelf - Interviewee D Diana SandmannSelf - Interviewee

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S Sybille BeckenbauerSelf - Interviewee W Werner RothSelf - Interviewee A Arie HaanSelf - Interviewee H Herbert JungSelf - Interviewee G Gunther LatschSelf - Interviewee L Lawrie MifflinSelf - Interviewee A Albert OstermaierSelf - Interviewee M Marcus HöflSelf - Interviewee R Robert SchwanSelf (archive footage) B Brigitte BeckenbauerSelf (archive footage) H Heidrun BurmesterSelf (archive footage) T Thomas BeckenbauerSelf (archive footage) M Michael BeckenbauerSelf (archive footage) S Stephan BeckenbauerSelf (archive footage) J Jack WarnerSelf (archive footage) R Robert Louis-DreyfusSelf (archive footage) M Mohammed bin HammamSelf (archive footage) R Rahel ComtesseSelf - Additional Voice A Andreas NeumannSelf - Additional Voice S Stefan WilkeningSelf - Additional Voice