Wednesday March 2nd  2022
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UK   2018   120 minutes
Director: Marcus H Rosenmuller
Starring: David Kross, Freyor Mavor, John Henshaw

The unlikely but true story of Bernhard Trautmann, a German soldier captured during the war and sent to a PoW camp in Lancashire. He is seen playing football there by Jack Friar, a shopkeeper and manager of the local football team, who realises that Trautmann’s skills as a goalkeeper would make him a very useful member. He gets Trautmann out of the camp by offering him a day job in his shop, so allowing him to play with St. Helen’s Town team in his spare time. Despite initial hostility at a personal and team level, Trautmann manages to integrate into the community, thanks to the ability of the ’beautiful game’ to heal scars and even perhaps to allow romance to flourish.