
Plot
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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Cast

Franz Beckenbauer
Self (archive footage)

Günter Netzer
Self - Interviewee

Paul Breitner
Self - Interviewee

Sepp Maier
Self - Interviewee

Lothar Matthäus
Self - Interviewee

Matthias Sammer
Self - Interviewee

Harald Schmidt
Self - Interviewee

Joschka Fischer
Self - Interviewee

Wolfgang Schäuble
Self - Interviewee

Otto Schily
Self - Interviewee

Walter Beckenbauer
Self - Interviewee

Diana Sandmann
Self - Interviewee

Sybille Beckenbauer
Self - Interviewee

Werner Roth
Self - Interviewee

Arie Haan
Self - Interviewee

Herbert Jung
Self - Interviewee

Gunther Latsch
Self - Interviewee

Lawrie Mifflin
Self - Interviewee

Albert Ostermaier
Self - Interviewee

Marcus Höfl
Self - Interviewee

Robert Schwan
Self (archive footage)

Brigitte Beckenbauer
Self (archive footage)

Heidrun Burmester
Self (archive footage)

Thomas Beckenbauer
Self (archive footage)

Michael Beckenbauer
Self (archive footage)

Stephan Beckenbauer
Self (archive footage)

Jack Warner
Self (archive footage)

Robert Louis-Dreyfus
Self (archive footage)

Mohammed bin Hammam
Self (archive footage)

Rahel Comtesse
Self - Additional Voice

Andreas Neumann
Self - Additional Voice

Stefan Wilkening
Self - Additional Voice