Life for Football, A2014

Director
Hans Steinbichler

Acters

Josef Bierbichler (Kurt Landauer)
Jeanette Hain (Maria Baumann)
Herbert Knaup (Sigi Hermann)
Andreas Lust (Conny Heidkamp)
Andrea Wenzl (Inge Streicher)
Eisi Gulp (Radschuweit)

The former president of one of the world’s greatest football clubs, returns after the war to rebuild the stadium and the team and secure the future success of FC Bayern Munich.

It’s the biggest sports club in Germany and one of the biggest football clubs in the world: FC Bayern Munich. Its road to glory, however, is paved with blood, sweat and hard work. The Nazis’ rise to power in Germany signaled the end of many careers. One of the men forced to resign his post was Kurt Landauer, president of FC Bayern Munich, German and Jewish. Imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 but released after a month, he spent the war years in Switzerland. In 1947 he returns to Munich to find the club in disastrous circumstances. The football field filled with rubble, the stadium in ruins, pervasive anti-Semitism, inexplicable financial transactions that have nearly bankrupted the club… Landauer accepts the nearly hopeless task of rebuilding both the stadium and the team. He must rebuild his own life, too. His purpose in life is the team; his mission is to lay the foundation stone for the future success of FC Bayern Munich.

“’A Life for Football’ is more than ‘just’ a biopic. Hans Steinbichler’s powerful film, staged with great attention to detail, is a post-war ‘document’ that gives us an idea of ​​how Jews who returned to Germany after 1945 must have felt. And Josef Bierbichler in the role of Landauer makes the production a real event.” – Tittelbach.tv

“The film is a must-see for Bayern fans, but it is worth watching for all football fans interested in history.” – Filmstarts.de

“A cleverly told biopic that confidently illuminates an important chapter in the history of the football club.” – Tv Spiel Film