Movie Details
Original Language:German
The Other Fields
1 hr 25 min
Plot
Every summer when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg Even though there are professional footballers they are all unemployed And they look desperately for a job The Other Fields sheds a new and completely different light on the mythologies of contemporary football While some may think that blingbling and glitz is all there is to modern football Marco Kugels and Simon Quacks film shows the intricate economic and moral complexities behind the façade of entertainment Dreams only last a season or two
