The Final Game (1998 film)

The Final Game
Directed by	Sigi Rothemund
Written by	Sven Burgemeister
Produced by	Timo Berndt Borris Brandt
Starring	Francis Fulton-Smith Christoph Waltz Thure Riefenstein
Cinematography	Dragan Rogulj
Edited by	Andreas Herzog
Music by	Dominic Roth
Production companies	TV-60 Filmproduktion Pro 7 Die Nefzers Nitro-Film Medienproduktion GmbH
Distributed by	Media Cooperation One (MC-One) Snp
Release date	9 June 1998 (1998-06-09)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Final Game is a 1998 German thriller film directed by Sigi Rothemund, it was written by Timo Berndt and Borris Brandt.

Plot

70,000 football-fans stream into Berlin Olympic Stadium in order to see the final of the DFB-Pokal. The men of the security center pay no attention to what is happening. In front of them several armed terrorists attack the central, five hostages arrive in the hands of gangsters. Kant, the gang leader, orders his men to close and lock all exit doors, because the game ends in a few minutes. It comes under the stadium visitors to a mass panic. Security Chief Bender has no chance to stop Kant alone, in addition he paid Kant using an old account.

Cast

• Francis Fulton-Smith as Tobias Bender
• Christoph Waltz as Kant
• Axel Milberg as Deutler
• Nele Mueller-Stöfen as Jacky
• Thure Riefenstein as Flamenco
• Armin Rohde as Harry Andresen
• Andreas Mannkopff
• Marek Wlodarczyk
• Veit Stübner
• Michael Schiller
• Ottokar Lehrner
• Alexander Reed
• Steffen Groth
• Peer Martiny
• Michael Ehnert as SEK-Chef Fischer
• Igor Jeftic
• Nina Rothemund
• Frank Zimmermann as Polizist

Production

Some of the scenes were shot on 1 March 1998 in the Bundesliga match Hertha BSC against Hansa Rostock.

Release

It premiered on 9 June 1998 as TV production on Pro 7 under the German title Das Finale. In Hungary had a theatrical release on 12 April 2005.

External links

• The Final Game at IMDb