They were forced to play. They refused to lose.
The Match
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 Nero
Old Branko
Caspar Phillipson
Colonel Franz
Filip Tallhamn
Karolyi Faraco
Andrej Dojkić
Laszlo Horvath
Viktor Kulhanek
Young Branko
Armand Assante
Commander
Milton Welsh
Peter
Robert Maaser
Hans Gruber
Philippe Reinhardt
Henckel
Andrea Zirio
Sandor Stekely
Markus Gertken
General
Nikolai Nedergaard
Aaron
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