This is an unusual portrait of a football club around which numerous myths are centred and which will play in the DFD Cup final in Berlin in 2002. Cuini
Amelio Ortiz documents the Bundesliga (premiership) final of FC Schalke 04. She accompanies the outgoing coach, the gogetting manager, extraordinary fans and the club's players in the national team. Gerald
Asamoah, the first coloured German national player, will be part of the lineup
for the world championship matches.
In the Berlin Olympia Stadium, FC Schalke 04 will round off an exciting season and give their coach the best of all leaving presents. After six successful years, Huub Stevens leaves Schalke for the capital, the very
place where he and his team will make history once again.
Manager Assauer is not the only person to regard this match as the most important of the entire year, for the new local stadium is the most expensive one in Europe and can only be financed by a winning team.
The performance against Bayern München in the second half of the season and the cup matches have won back the hearts of numerous fans: the appeal of Schalke has not faded. The champion of hearts has become the champion of revenge a comeback that many had lost their faith in long ago.
script & directing: Cuini Amelio-Ortiz
camera: Sergio Gazzera, Florian Schilling, Bob Gragzias, Martin Granata
dog camera: Janosch
sound: Alejandro Cardenas-A.
editing: Cuini Amelio-Ortiz, Hector Navarrete
production: Annette Rupp
© 2002, Ventana
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