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The Match

Name: The Match
Director: Dominik Sedlar
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 2021-07-10
Cast: Franco Nero, Caspar Phillipson, Filip Tallhamn, Andrej Dojkić, Viktor Kulhanek

DramaHistoryWar

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.

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Franco NeroCaspar PhillipsonFilip TallhamnAndrej DojkićViktor KulhanekArmand AssanteMilton WelshRobert MaaserPhilippe ReinhardtAndrea ZirioMarkus GertkenNikolai Nedergaard

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Dominik Sedlar

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