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The Big Game (1942 film)
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'The Big Game' is a 1942 German sports film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Ren Deltgen, Gustav Knuth and Heinz Engelmann. It featured famous German footballers of the era. National coach Sepp Herberger arranged for many German international footballers to be recalled from fighting in the Second World War, ostensibly to improve the quality of the film, but actually to try to protect them from the horrors of war.Hesse-Lichtenbeger p. 9192
Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor. The sets were designed by art directors Gerbert Hochreiter and Walter Schlick.
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