A 10-year-old joins a geriatric gang—wheelchairs, wits, and soccer grudge matches included.
Max can hardly believe his luck: In a retirement home, he has finally found a gang that will let him join! Admittedly, it's the oldest and most wrinkly gang in the world - but that doesn't matter. He's found the best friends a 10-year-old could wish for in the elderly Vera, Horst and Kilian. Especially when, like Max, you're bullied in your new class and need help. But the gang's attempt to improve his school situation backfires. Horst, a former Bundesliga soccer coach, challenges Max's over-ambitious gym teacher Stöhle to a soccer duel: the school team including Laura and Ole against a selection of old geezers plus Max! And then the castle is haunted and a new case begins...
Acting
Uschi Glas and Thomas Thieme class up every scene they're in
Practical Effects
Actual seniors doing soccer stunts, no CGI wrinkles needed
Production
Bavarian castle locations that look borrowed from a fairy tale
Director
Winfried Oelsner
Lucas Herzog
Max Bergmann
Klara Nölle
Laura
Uschi Glas
Vera Hasselberg
Günther Maria Halmer
Kilian von Hohenburg
Thomas Thieme
Horst Dobberkau
Caroline Junghanns
Helene Sonnenfeld
Giuseppe Bonvissuto
Ole
Nina Petri
Head Nurse Cordula
Michael Grimm
Klaus Sonnenfeld
Henning Peker
Karle
Jacob Matschenz
Sports Teacher Ströhle
Inge Maux
Mrs. Orlov
Nicholas Jonah Peter
Ole's Friend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Uschi Glas is Bavarian cinema royalty—her casting signals 'legitimate German family film' to local audiences like Meryl Streep doing a Hallmark movie.
The soccer match was filmed with real over-70 amateur players; Thomas Thieme (Horst) trained for three months and reportedly demanded to do his own penalty kick.
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