Quite simply the greatest upset in World Cup final history. In the group stage at the 1954 World Cup, West Germany were ...

Sönke Wortmann’s 2003 German feature, set in 1954, is about an 11-year-old member of a championship-winning soccer team playing in a tournament, the return home of his POW father after more than a ...

Summer, 1954. In a small town in the Ruhr, Matthias Lubanski, 11, waits with his mother and brothers and sisters for his father, a prisoner of war, to return home. An avid football fan, the young boy ...