He is considered one of the most important athletes in football history. Franz Beckenbauer was the shining light of German football, won everything there was to win in club football as a player and coach, became world champion as a player and coach and, as the father of the "Summer Fairy Tale", brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany. He was also a pioneering advertising icon and an occasional singer and actor. The man whom everyone in his home country simply calls “Kaiser” shaped the image of the Federal Republic of Germany like no one else. The legendary footballer seems like a national treasure today, but little is known about the person behind the ball artist. Public knowledge of his private life is shaped by his long-term relationships with four women. The documentary, completed shortly before his death, uses archive material and prominent contemporary witnesses from sports, politics and entertainment to weave both facets into a look at a life's work with light and shadow.
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Franz Beckenbauer as Self (archive footage)
Günter Netzer as Self - Interviewee
Paul Breitner as Self - Interviewee
Sepp Maier as Self - Interviewee
Lothar Matthäus as Self - Interviewee
Matthias Sammer as Self - Interviewee
Harald Schmidt as Self - Interviewee
Joschka Fischer as Self - Interviewee
Wolfgang Schäuble as Self - Interviewee
Otto Schily as Self - Interviewee
Walter Beckenbauer as Self - Interviewee
Diana Sandmann as Self - Interviewee
Sybille Beckenbauer as Self - Interviewee
Werner Roth as Self - Interviewee
Arie Haan as Self - Interviewee
Herbert Jung as Self - Interviewee
Gunther Latsch as Self - Interviewee
Lawrie Mifflin as Self - Interviewee
Albert Ostermaier as Self - Interviewee
Marcus Höfl as Self - Interviewee
Robert Schwan as Self (archive footage)
Brigitte Beckenbauer as Self (archive footage)
Heidrun Burmester as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Beckenbauer as Self (archive footage)
Michael Beckenbauer as Self (archive footage)
Stephan Beckenbauer as Self (archive footage)
Jack Warner as Self (archive footage)
Robert Louis-Dreyfus as Self (archive footage)
Mohammed bin Hammam as Self (archive footage)
Rahel Comtesse as Self - Additional Voice
Andreas Neumann as Self - Additional Voice
Stefan Wilkening as Self - Additional Voice
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