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WIM WENDERS COLLECTION - THE GOALKEEPER’S FEAR OF THE PENALTY KICK

By Wim WENDERS

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Drama - Completed 1971

- Year of production
- 1971
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Wim WENDERS
- Writer(s)
- Wim WENDERS, Peter HANDKE
- Cast
- Arthur BRAUSS, Kai FISCHER, Erika PLUHAR
- Synopsis
- Wim Wenders’ debut feature is a couple of hours in the life of an archetypally alienated “existential” hero. Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off during a game for foul play. He spends the night with a cinema cashier. Then in the morning, he strangles her. Bloch drives to the country, to a former girlfriend’s place, where he waits for the police to close in on him.
  Like in many of Wenders’ films, the cultural influence of America in post-war West Germany is felt through the rich vein of movie and music references – “everything from Hitchcock to ‘Wimaway’”.