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Synopsis: Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s - it is no
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Eran Riklis
Production: Egoli Tossell Film
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Year:
2011
107 min
55 Views


I'm sorry, but I don't really

understand connection.

This is delicious.

What is it about the coffee

in this country

that it doesn't taste like coffee?

It's like black water.

- Yes.

"Where there is no good coffee

"nothing's good."

I'm only here

for one years and a half

but I miss Istanbul very much.

Well...

If only for this,

it was worth helping you.

I'll stay in touch.

Berta.

You wanted to know the name

of konditorei owner,

is Berta.

Yes. Thank you.

Do you want me to check

anything else?

I would be happy to help you.

Really.

Why? Does it look like I need help?

Yes.

Tell me, what do you do for a living?

I clean toilets in restaurant.

For a moment I thought you were

a psychologist or something.

I'm sorry, that was out of line.

It's not working

because you insist on zone defense.

I'm talking

about individual balls here.

One on one, man to man.

How many times do I have to tell you?

Sh*t, what does he want?

If you've got something to say,

then just say it.

I don't think the problem is

with the way we play.

So what in your opinion, captain,

is the problem?

I think you're trying to force

a style onto us

that's maybe suitable someplace else.

Boys, basketball

is a universal language.

It is a creative and instinctual game.

You've got that.

But you're scared.

When you stop being scared

you'll understand it.

Got it? Get it?

Hanns!

But... but how do we?

"But"...but what?

Afraid of the dark?

You should be able to play,

even in the dark.

Feel and listen.

Listen to the rhythm of the ball.

Feel it. Feel yourself.

Feel your enemy.

Feel him, smell him.

Touch him.

Respect and suspect.

Always respect and suspect him.

Ready, boys?

Move aside. Come on.

Watch out, idiot!

Thomas, I'll give you a ride home.

Come on, Thomas, you'll catch a cold.

Come on.

Over my career I've seen

hundreds of players

and only a handful

had your talent.

Man man man...

We made him (Beckenbauer) a Kaiser

and he goes to America.

People don't care about where

they come from anymore,

only about where they're going.

Would you turn it down, please?

Beckenbauer refused to comment...

You can fight with me, Thomas,

you can fight with me.

But let me be that point that you

can lean on so that you can fly.

I promise you, you'll be

in a completely new place.

What if I don't want

to be in a new place?

What if I'm happy just where I am?

Why are you so intent

on screwing up your career?

Why are you so intent on changing us?

Why are you here at all?

Stop here.

Stop.

I'm sure your father would have wanted

to see you succeed, Thomas.

My father didn't want to see anything.

Why do you say that?

If they had given him 1%,

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