She moved for love. He moved for soccer. Now it's war on the pitch.
Anna is persuaded by her boyfriend Paul to move from Berlin to his home town of Imma. What the notorious soccer hater doesn't know, however, is that joining his best friend Steffen's law firm is just a pretext. In reality, Paul and his buddies are there to save the soccer club he co-founded, Eintracht Imma 95, from relegation. Anna soon realizes that the players' wives have nothing to say to their soccer junkies: Artificial turf in the bedroom, Effenberg bedding and weekends on the soccer pitch. When she finds out the real reason for the move, she mobilizes her fellow sufferers to counter-attack after a fierce bout of frustration and challenges Paul and his friends to the ultimate duel on the soccer pitch. The bet is on: women against men. If the women win, soccer is over - and Paul has to go back to Berlin with Anna. Forever. If the men win, there will be no more complaining.
Acting
Nora Tschirner's exasperated charisma carries every scene
Writing
Sharp domestic comedy that actually understands football culture
Practical Effects
Chaotic amateur pitch sequences feel authentically unglamorous
Director
Ute Wieland
Christian Ulmen
Paul Bruhn
Nora Tschirner
Anna Rothe
Florian Lukas
Steffen Hagen
Anneke Kim Sarnau
Kim Wagner
Heinz Hoenig
Laurenz Schmidt
Andreas Guenther
Jurij Zille
Petra Kleinert
Lili Oelze
Steffen Groth
Eric Polgar
Martin Armknecht
Sebastian Mehnert-Wichert
Leslie Malton
Astrid Mehnert-Wichert
Veit Stübner
Rudi Oelze
Andreas Pietschmann
Marc Ritter
Karina Fallenstein
Heike Minnert
Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Boris Minnert
Jens Münchow
Daniel Gunze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Eintracht' name places this in Germany's dense lower-league football culture, where amateur clubs often define small-town identity more than any corporation.
This is actually a German remake of the 2005 Finnish film 'FC Venus' — the rare European remake keeping the original's gender-battle premise intact rather than softening it.
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