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 ...