Three months after the World Cup, Germany's got a new documentary film paying tribute to their football (soccer) team, called Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen. Last night, we picked up our tickets one hour before the film started and were amazed that no one was at the theater. Normally the theater's packed on a Friday evening. We thought this would have been a major event for everyone who followed the games (2nd to the big 35M lotto jackpot everyone's gaga about). Then we realized that this theater caters to English language films. Expats or visitors are the most often seen here. People started arriving 10 minutes before the film started, no doubt they picked up their tickets earlier in the day. Ah ha!

So this was my first german film at the Movies. It was hard to follow because most of the punch lines were at the end of a scene and were basically untranslatable (rewind! rewind!). But I got the gist. Twice the movie-goers clapped when the film ran clips of german goals made against Poland and Argentina. The strongest part of the film was in the locker room after they lost to Italy in the Semi-Finals. It was a cool summary of the WM, but nothing was shocking about it. Just good fun. Can't wait 'til the next WM 2010.