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Sorry, this movie sucks

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I think the film is so-so, on the one hand we have an inconvincing casting, some scene are violent, the plot is dull. On the other hand we have great sound design and original story. When i went watching the film, i have sleep in the middle of the film on the shoulder of my friend next to me. However, if you like the football, this film is for you, but for me it's not woth for my money. Honorine.

And what you need even more is a definite interest in football (and history). "Das Wunder von Bern" or "The Miracle of Bern" is a German film from over 10 years ago that runs for almost 120 minutes and was really a big thing back then if I remember correctly. Director and writer Sönke Wortmann is still a name today to everybody with an interest in German movies. However, with regard to the film's popularity, the cast is relatively unknown. Peter Lohmeyer is the only actor who is above-average in terms of how famous they are, maybe Wackernagel as well. Anyway, this was already the second or third time I watched this film and it is still a pretty solid watch. You can probably categorize this film into 3 sequences. The first would be everything about the family, the second would be the football teams and games and the third would be the reporter and his wife.The latter is easily the weakest. Wackernagel and Gregorowicz were sometimes embarrassingly bad and this story also added nothing of value in terms of the entire movie. No idea why they included it. The runtime also was in a dimension where they could have done completely without it I believe. The story with the boy who admired one of the players was decent, the father who returned from war added a nice historic impact to the film, even if they certainly could have elaborated more on him. No idea why Johanna Gastdorf received a German Film award nomination, she really wasn't that convincing. The other son's comments about the GDR were actually comedy gold looking at how that country turned out. The best part, however, was the football reference. Bern 1954 is still a special event for every German who knows a bit about football. Of course, the significance of the triumph has also to do with what happened in the 20 years before that.I don't think this was a particularly convincing film in terms of writing and acting. There were a couple very bad scenes unfortunately, for example when Wackernagel's character starts screaming in the audience. That was definitely embarrassing. Overall, I remembered liking this film more the last time I saw it. Still, it's a pretty decent watch thanks to the references to this great day in German history and it's also a decent summary overall of the World Cup 1954 from German perspective. Thumbs up.

Historically, few movies have been made about football (or soccer, for those in the United States). I believe this is due for two reasons: 1) Hollywood wasn't familiar and care little for the sport for many years, and 2) European directors, who one would have expected to be more disposed to made such a film, have generally been dismissive of football. You see, in their mind, I think they see it as the opiate of the people (the working class in Western Europe would rather go and see a match on Sunday than start a revolution to overthrow capitalism). Only recently there have been a number of movies that deal with the world's most popular sport. This is in my opinion the best of them, dealing with the surprise victory of Germany in the 1954 World Cup over the highly favored team of Hungary. This victory was of historical significance for the Germans, according to some people, since it was the first victory of any kind Germany have 9 years after the end of the war, and it meant the start of a new era of increased self-confidence for the country. OK, maybe this is an exaggeration, but this movie, which mixes real characters (the players, coach Herberger) with invented ones (the journalist and his newly married wife, the kid from the Ruhr region who has a bad relationship with his former POW father and wants to go to Switzerland to see the final match) is thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end.

Das Wunder von Bern would be a great movie for men who think they still are boys, if it just wasn't as naive as it is.The movie is about a boy who in the middle of poverty finds inspiration in football - and a father he never had in a player of a local football team. Until his father actually returns from Russia, that is. Father is quite a serious character and almost every scene he's in has that dark tone to it. They have tried to lighten up the movie with a character of a sports journalist and his wife, but that's only confusing at best.As usually, they have tried to write a sports movie that would be more than a sports movie. The result is, it's hard to tell what the movie eventually is. Das Wunder von Bern is at it's best as a nostalgic journey back to the rugged sceneries and interiors of the 1950's.