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THE MIRACLE OF BERN

Original Title

Das Wunder von Bern

Director

Sönke Wortmann

Genre

Comedy/Drama

Country of origin

Germany

Language spoken

German/Swiss German

Year of production

2003

Admissions

3,683,310 (Germany, as at 31st December 2004)

Box Office

€ 2,509,501 (opening week-end in Germany)

Production

Little Shark Entertainment
Senator Film Produktion
Seven Pictures

Domestic distribution/World Sales

Senator Film (2003) (Germany)
Universal Pictures Germany (2004) (Germany)
Bavaria Film International (worldwide)
Buff (Sweden)

Domestic release

16 October 2003 (Germany)

Awards

Bavarian Film Awards 2004 (Best Direction; Best Supporting Role)
Euregio Filmball 2004 (Favorite Film in Germany)
German Film Awards 2004 (Audience Award – German Film of the Year; Film Award in Silver – Outstanding Feature Film)
Golden Screen, Germany 2003 (Golden Screen)
Locarno International Film Festival 2003 (Audience Award)
New Faces Awards, Germany 2004 (Actor)
San Francisco International Film Festival 2004 (Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature)

Suggested by

Claudio Gubitosi – Director of Giffoni Film Festival (Italy)

  

List of Distributor

Release date

Country

Distributor

19 December 2003

Austria

 

25 February 2004

Switzerland (French speaking region)

Filmcoopi Zürich

29 April 2004

Slovenia

 

28 May 2004

Greece

 

11 June 2004

Italy

Eagle Pictures

16 July 2004

UK

 

9 September 2004

Netherlands

1More Film

10 September 2004

South Korea

 

18 November 2004

Hong Kong

 

19 November 2004

Denmark

 

25 December 2004

Brazil

 

 

SYNOPSIS

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: the family of a young boy is splitted due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after thirteen years. His problems in getting back to normality are shown, with references to his children and wife. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.