Synopsis: The movie tells the story of a young boy in 1950s Germany who lives for his favorite soccer team Schalke 04 and their forward star and visits their training grounds every day. He is the youngest child of a woman who runs a local bar in Gelsenkirchen, the coal mining center in Germany. Her husband was a soldier in the battle of Stalingrad. He returns from 10 years of POW camp in Russia to find his wife running the show, his 2 older children estranged from him and a young son he didn't know existed . The movie follows the father and his coping with trauma and estrangement from his family, and the youngest son who has found a father figure in the soccer star. Ultimately, father and son reunite over the German victory of the soccer world championship in Switzerland in 1954.
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