Beckenbauer

2024

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

Franz Beckenbauer

Self (archive footage)

Günter Netzer

Self - Interviewee

Paul Breitner

Self - Interviewee

Sepp Maier

Self - Interviewee

Lothar Matthäus

Self - Interviewee

Matthias Sammer

Self - Interviewee

Harald Schmidt

Self - Interviewee

Joschka Fischer

Self - Interviewee

Wolfgang Schäuble

Self - Interviewee

Otto Schily

Self - Interviewee

Walter Beckenbauer

Self - Interviewee

Diana Sandmann

Self - Interviewee

Sybille Beckenbauer

Self - Interviewee

Werner Roth

Self - Interviewee

Arie Haan

Self - Interviewee

Herbert Jung

Self - Interviewee

Gunther Latsch

Self - Interviewee

Lawrie Mifflin

Self - Interviewee

Albert Ostermaier

Self - Interviewee

Marcus Höfl

Self - Interviewee

Robert Schwan

Self (archive footage)

Brigitte Beckenbauer

Self (archive footage)

Heidrun Burmester

Self (archive footage)

Thomas Beckenbauer

Self (archive footage)

Michael Beckenbauer

Self (archive footage)

Stephan Beckenbauer

Self (archive footage)

Jack Warner

Self (archive footage)

Robert Louis-Dreyfus

Self (archive footage)

Mohammed bin Hammam

Self (archive footage)

Rahel Comtesse

Self - Additional Voice

Andreas Neumann

Self - Additional Voice

Stefan Wilkening

Self - Additional Voice

Beckenbauer

Cast

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