Germany: A Summer's Fairytale

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Germany: A Summer's Fairytale

2006

1h 50m

6.9(57 votes)

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Overview

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.

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38 members

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Jürgen Klinsmann

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Joachim Löw

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Andreas Köpke

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Oliver Bierhoff

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Jens Lehmann

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Oliver Kahn

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Timo Hildebrand

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Christoph Metzelder

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Per Mertesacker

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Philipp Lahm

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Arne Friedrich

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Robert Huth

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Marcell Jansen

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Jens Nowotny

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Michael Ballack

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Torsten Frings

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Bastian Schweinsteiger

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Bernd Schneider

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Tim Borowski

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Sebastian Kehl

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Thomas Hitzlsperger

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David Odonkor

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Miroslav Klose

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Lukas Podolski

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Oliver Neuville

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Gerald Asamoah

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Mike Hanke

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Angela Merkel

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Horst Köhler

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Franz Beckenbauer

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Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder

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Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt

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Adolf Katzenmeier

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Oliver Schmidtlein

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Harald Stenger

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Matthias Sammer

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Michael Schumacher

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Xavier Naidoo

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