The Match
5.8
“They were forced to play. They refused to lose.”
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.
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Franco Nero
Old Branko
Known for
Die Hard 2
John Wick: Chapter 2
Caspar Phillipson
Colonel Franz
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Jackie
Project Blue Book
Filip Tallhamn
Karolyi Faraco
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Flicker
Jag saknar dig
Andrej Dojkić
Laszlo Horvath
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The Day of the Jackal
Viktor Kulhanek
Young Branko
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Calcium
Armand Assante
Commander
Known for
The Odyssey
The Road to El Dorado
Milton Welsh
Peter
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Conan the Barbarian
The Ghost Writer
Robert Maaser
Hans Gruber
Known for
Blood & Gold
Ballerina
Philippe Reinhardt
Henckel
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Sobibor
Stalingrad
Andrea Zirio
Sandor Stekely
Known for
Lost in Florence
Markus Gertken
General
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You Are Wanted
The Romanoffs
Nikolai Nedergaard
Aaron
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Jakov Sedlar Director · Dominik Sedlar Director Gary Hertz Writer
United States release October 29, 2021 · Produced in Croatia, United States · Production Nexus Productions, Ollendorff Center
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Ineomedia
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Nexus Productions
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Ollendorff Center
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Oluja Film
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VISION Studios
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Croatia · United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United Kingdom · July 10, 2021
Theatrical
United States · October 29, 2021
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Brazil
December 16, 2021 · Digital · VOD
Denmark
March 14, 2022 · Theatrical
Germany
May 27, 2022 · Physical
New Zealand
August 16, 2021 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
July 12, 2021 · Digital
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