Directed by:
Hans SteinbichlerCinematography:
Bella HalbenCast:
Josef Bierbichler, Jeanette Hain, Herbert Knaup, Andreas Lust, Andrea Wenzl, Johannes Krisch, Markus Böker, Hans Steinbichler, Eisi Gulp, Matthias Ransberger (more)Plots(1)
One man's fate. One team's destiny.
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, whereby he is able to draw upon his previous achievements and make creative and far-sighted use of them.
He must rebuild his own life, too, which means not marrying the woman he loves, and not moving to the U.S. His purpose in life is the team; his mission is to lay the foundation stone for the future success of FC Bayern Munich.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Josef Bierbichler
West Germany
Best movies:
The White Ribbon (2009)
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Jeanette Hain
West Germany
Best movies:
Young Woman and the Sea (2024)
The Reader (2008)
Never Look Away (2018)
Herbert Knaup
West Germany
Best movies:
The Lives of Others (2006)
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Andreas Lust
Austria
Best movies:
Munich (2005)
Das Wunder von Wörgl (2018) (TV movie)
A Whole Life (2023)
Andrea Wenzl
Austria
Best movies:
The Fatherless (2011)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
LenaLove (2015)
Johannes Krisch
Austria
Best movies:
Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne (2017) (series)
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Revenge (2008)
Markus Böker
West Germany
Best movies:
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
My Mother, My Bride and I (2008)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Hans Steinbichler
Switzerland
Best movies:
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
Eisi Gulp
West Germany
Best movies:
Zuckerbaby (1985)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
Bergblut (2010)
Matthias Ransberger
West Germany
Best movies:
Balloon (2018)
Desert Flower (2009)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
Daniel Christensen
West Germany
Best movies:
Der junge Häuptling Winnetou (2022)
Ghosts (2005)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
Harry Täschner
Best movies:
Frozen Sky (2011) (series)
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
Leni Wesselman
Germany
Best movies:
Gundermann (2018)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
As We Were Dreaming (2015)
Billie Zöckler
Germany
Best movies:
Die Kinderklinik (1993) (series)
Vicky the Viking (2009)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)
Ferdinand Dörfler
West Germany
Best movies:
Ku'damm 56 (2016) (series)
My Life in Orange (2011)
Landauer - Der Präsident (2014) (TV movie)