The Final Game is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 thriller film directed by Sigi Rothemund, it was written by Timo Berndt and Borris Brandt.

Plot

70 000 football-fans streamed into Berlin Olympic Stadium in order to see the final of the DFB Cup. The men of the security center pay no attention to happening. In front of them several armed terrorists attacked the central, five hostages arrives in the hands of gangsters. Kant the gang leader ordered to close all exit doors, because the game ended in few minutes and locked the exits. It comes under the stadium visitors to a mass panic. Security Chief Bender has no chance to stop Kant alone, in addition he paid using Kant to an old account.

Cast

• Francis Fulton-Smith
  Francis Fulton-Smith
  -Life:Fulton-Smith was born in Munich, Germany, the son of a German mother and an English father.He trained as an actor at the Otto-Falkenberg-Schule in Munich....
  
   as Tobias Bender
• Christoph Waltz
  Christoph Waltz
  Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and...
  
   as Kant
• Axel Milberg as Deutler
• Nele Mueller-Stöfen as Jacky
• Thure Riefenstein as Flamenco
• Armin Rohde as Harry Andresen
• Andreas Mannkopff
• Marek Wlodarczyk
• Veit Stübner
• Michael Schiller
• Ottokar Lehrner
• Alexander Reed
• Steffen Groth
• Peer Martiny
• Michael Ehnert as SEK-Chef Fischer
• Igor Jeftic
• Nina Rothemund
• Frank Zimmermann as Polizist

Production

Some of the scenes were shot on 1 March 1998 in the Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

 match Hertha BSC Berlin

Hertha BSC Berlin

Hertha Berliner Sport-Club von 1892, commonly known as Hertha BSC or Hertha Berlin, is a German association football club based in Berlin. A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin's best-supported side...

 against Hansa Rostock.

Release

It premiered on 9 June 1998 as TV production on Pro 7

Pro 7

ProSieben is a commercial television station in Germany distributed to a large extent via cable and satellite along with DVB-T in larger population centres. It began operations on January 1, 1989. Since 2003 the station, as part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media, is owned by a group of investors led by...

under the German title Das Finale. In Hungary had a theatrical release on 12 April 2005.