Online Film Program | Jewish Public Library
The Delores and Harry Rosen Fund of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal presents an online film screening on May 12 at 7.30 pm:
With an introduction by Rabbi Reuben Poupko, co-Chair CIJA Quebec, Chair Canadian Rabbinic Caucus and the Rabbi of Beth Israel Beth Aaron congregation since 1986.
The Keeper
Germany, UK | 2018 | 113 mins | Original with english subtitles
Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
With: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw
Bernd Trautmann, born in 1923 in Bremen, is captured by the British in WWII. During a football match between the prisoners, the goalkeeper is noticed by Jack Friar, manager of an amateur club. Forced upon the team, Trautmann soon surprises on and off the field. Prejudice subsides, friendships start to develop and Trautmann loses his heart not only to football but to his manager’s beautiful daughter Margaret. However, Trautmann could not have foreseen the wave of outrage resulting from his engagement at Man City FC. Thousands take to the streets against the signing of the "Nazi."
Feeling alienated and alone, Trautmann’s and Margaret’s loyalty to each other is being seriously put to the test. But they receive support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Alexander Altmann, who fled the Nazis, publishes an open letter against the anti-German slogans. Trautmann’s path to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man City by playing on despite a broken neck. Yet fate twists the knife and Trautmann’s son is killed in a car accident. Heartbroken, Trautmann wants to give up. But a whole nation has learned to accept him, and so he starts to prepare for his comeback. For all those who learned to forgive, for those who had lost someone and most of all for his son, who admired him the most, he must step back onto the pitch.
- filmportal.de
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