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Original title

Playoff

Year

2011

Running time

107 min.

Country

Israel

Director

Eran Riklis

Screenwriter

Eran Riklis, David Akerman

Cast

Music

Cyril Morin

Cinematography

Rainer Klausmann

Producer

Egoli Tossell Film, Fidélité Films, Topia Communications

Genre

Drama | Biography. Sports. Basketball

Synopsis

Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions...

Awards: 2011: Montréal World Film Festival: Best Actor (ex aequo) (Danny Huston)

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Playoff

2011

Eran Riklis