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Quite often in sports biopics, the story far super cedes their sporting achievements. This couldn't be any more true in the case of Bert Trautmann as his fascinating story gets told here; becoming a hero to many Englishman not so long after fighting to kill them.

What this film succeeds in is balancing when the right time for poignancy is and when to include some levity. What lets it down is the pacing. There were a few times where I felt the wrong moments were being drawn out, where more important and interesting moments were being rushed through too quickly.

You don't need to be a football fan to enjoy it, it's a human interest story above all else.

Though I had heard about Bert Trautmann I didn't know his story

Which this film told very well, and is well worth watching even and especially if you not a football fan.

Once again what could have been an excellent film was ruined for me by a script written by people who were not born until decades later. I was growing up in the North of England at that time, and the period covered my childhood and teens. I cannot speak for the men but the F___ word was NEVER used by women or in mixed company at that time NEVER, EVER! The first time I heard used at all I was in my 20's and the user got a severe reprimand. Nor did women at that time discuss sexual matters as freely as the young women in the film. It just wasn't done, was considered 'dirty talk' and the women were considered 'fast'. Otherwise the film was very enjoyable, if a little too manipulative. One encounter left out when Trautmann broke his neck he was being congratulated by Prince Philip after the game, who remarked on the injury as Trautmann was holdng his neck. One thing the filmmakers did get right was the way they showed the football scenes and the way it was back then, when players kept their day jobs, and spectators at local pitches stood to watch the match. There may have been seats, but we could never afford them. When I see the way football has become a huge business today, with astromical salaries, prima donna players, luxury stadiums and changing rooms, somehow I think we lost out and the simple game was better. To summarise, I really would like to see film makers cut down on the use of offensive language, particularly in flims set before the 21st century.

Anglo-German production, TV-movie(ish); two-dimensional fare. But the amazing story and a dollop of charm, makes this a hell of a lot better than it should be.

This is a straightforward historical romance. But it's well played by Kross as Trautmann, and Mavor as his wife Margaret. And Henshaw gives a typically excellent performance as plain-speaking, Northern dad.

It should be terrible, but it's a really watchable film, and a very good football film to boot. The CGI recreation of 1950's football stadiums is amazing. It takes dramatic licence, but still brings home the Cup.

My dad was in the POW camp with Bert and married a local girl (my mum) from Liverpool! I knew they'd had a hard time because my dad was seen as the enemy and my mum as a traitor, but this film is so beautifully told and it brought it home to me! It's both funny and deeply emotional, but most of all it's about reconciliation and acceptance! Obviously there's a little poetic license, but that adds to the film! It had me in tears, Highly recommended!

1st half rather slow - livens up in 2nd. Two principal actors (German) and supporting British cast good. Film shows initial suspicion and hatred of Trautmann and later full acceptance by Man city supporters. The war scenes are rather glossed over (German script writers). In reality Trautmann was originally a committed Nazi and met the Fuhrer at the Hitler youth games where he was a silver medal winner at 2 events. As an elite paratrooper he won the Iron Cross and took part in the airborne invasion of Crete where he killed a few partisans. His training later helped to further his goalkeeping skills and he dived at the feet of opposing forwards and rolled forward with the ball. He surrendered to the British sector as the Americans would have killed him. He really should have played for Germany in the 1954 World Cup finals in Switzerland but only players with national home based clubs were considered.

After his broken neck in the 1956 cup final it was encased in plaster for 5 months. He was certainly a Manchester city legend. In 1964 I attended his testimonial (last game)which was never finished as the crowd invaded the pitch to shake his hand. He made a moving tannoy address and many were in tears.

He is the only player to win the OBE (Order of the British Empire) and the German equivalent, The Iron Cross and an FA cup winners medal. He died in 2013.

A truly heartwarming story of reconciliation and the human condition. I watched this film in the Cinema in St. Helens. A town that is close to my heart and that features in Bert Trautmann's story before his time playing for Manchester City.

This movie is about so much more than football. I'm largely disinterested in the beautiful game but even I was bowled over by the brilliant humour and heartwarming story of redemption and reconciliation.

Watch this movie, tell your friends about it and talk about it. It deserves to be seen both on its own merit and as one of the few films to represent working class northerners in a human light, displaying their unique sense of humour and kindness as well as dealing with the emotional fallout of war in a mature way.

It was an absolutely wonderful film, a brilliant story about a tremendous soul who helped to bring people together. Who didn't seem to have a nasty bone in his body and who just seemed to personify dignity and grace, in addition to being a tremendous athlete. The performances by David Cross and John Henshaw were astonishing. Great ensemble cast, wonderful direction, just a really outstanding production

My Review The Keeper rating 7:5

It's unusual but this is almost 2 reviews in one unintentionally though but both The Keeper and The Last Quarter Documentary have issues in common.

The Keeper or Trautmann as it's known on IMBD is based on a true character .

I'd never heard of Bert Trautmann why would I? I've never been into football heroes English or Australian.

This week though I'm much more knowledgeable about 2 footballers Adam Goodes ,the famous Sydney Swans footballer after watching the excellent and confronting documentary The Final Quarter and The Keeper about a famous Manchester United Goal Keeper Bert Trautmann.

Both these men talented Sporting heroes sustained continuous insults and crowd abuse booing and jeering at their matches and media publicity reporting negatively about their character and ethnicity.

Bert Trautmann a released German Prisoner of War and extremely talented goal keeper for his participation in the 2nd World War as an Iron Cross awarded Luftwaffe Pilot . Australian Adam Goodes an indigenous First Nation football hero who dared to take a proud stand of Solidarity with his people and in doing so exposed himself to the ugly underbelly of racial vilification and continual booing and insults from the mass crowds at his matches.

The Keeper is a very good film, not great but only a few are these days however it's extremely entertaining and interesting and even if you're not a football fan of great human interest.

I read up a little about the true life events of Bert Trautmann and the script is pretty factual regarding the period of his life that the movie covers ,which saw him play as goalkeeper for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.

Trautmann is played so well by a very handsome charismatic German actor David Kross who I remember from the excellent 2008 award winning movie The Reader .Freya Mayor gives a lovely performance in the role of Margaret, Bert's first wife and John Henshaw is also very impressive as Margaret's father Jack.

Good directing ,good script ,good acting interesting story and proof again that attitudes and prejudices remain the same even with decades of time separating them and that the ugliness of an angry crowd is a very scary and disturbing mass of negative emotions.

One of the most enjoyable films of the year, whether or not you like football. Really good story, solidly told. Yet another film not getting the publicity or wide release it deserves.

I had previously read the biography of Trautmann.Also I did see him play in a match at Highbury.He where he conceded 5 goals towards the end of his career. This is a very thoughtful film though rather slow in places particularly when dealing with his domestic life.I think that they managed the football scenes well albeit with the use of cain.

This is a very C grade movie, there's nothing unique and it does the bare minimum with the story telling. Looking back it's really hard to distinguish a beginning, middle and end, all the events that take place in this film kind of just 'happens'. The timeskips in the movie are unforgivable. There's a scene that goes from night to to dawn without any real communication how much time has passed, as far as the viewer is concerned, it's just the next morning, although we soon find out enough time has passed for one of the characters to get married after just 'meeting' them.

This isn't the only instance of bad pacing, there's many other time skips that happen throughout the film, and if you blink, you'll literally miss it. I feel as though the director of this film had a decent idea on how to portray the protagonists life, but at the middle and end had no idea how to wrap up the story. There's a moment in the story that's supposed to be tragic, but it was done so fast and without thought that all I could do is laugh in the cinema.

Most of the characters didn't have much development, and there's a lot of questions you have throughout the film about their backstory that are left unanswered; You finally get some at the end, but that's after multiple scenes of blue balling the audience into thinking they're going to get the answers only to say, "just kidding" and ending the scenes before you get them.

There's not much else to say about the movie - there are some heartwarming moments of acceptance, but they were very few and far between. I wish we got a closer look of Bert and how he was accepted as part of a family and not this sped along train wreck.

I was enjoying this for most of the time but thought it became rather flat towards the end. It seemed to be quite close to the truth and perhaps, as a drama, that was its weakness.

This certainly is a watchable, enjoyable film, and a pleasant way to spend an hour or two. Still, after reading a piece in the Guardian about the real-life Trautmann, I felt the movie had been entirely too generous to him. Of course, it's a movie, and a bit of hagiography is not surprising. Still, we are talking about a Nazi here, certainly not an entirely indifferent one. Of course, everyone must ask the question if they had been brought up in Nazi Germany, would they have acted any differently? And maybe Trautmann was as repentant as he's made out tobe. Still, he just seemed a big too attractive and sympathetic to be a believable Nazi. Still, the movie is worth the viewer's time, especially if free on one of the movie services.

Being an avid City fan and having once had the privilege to meet the great man at Maine Road it was a film I was really looking to seeing. It did not disappoint!! Beautifully filmed, great acting and some amazing CGI to recreate Maine Road and the surrounding terraced houses and the old Wembley stadium. A must for any City fan, truly a brilliant film.

I was very curious about this movie, even if I am not a fan of the football game. The trailer hooked me immediately. The film tells the story of Bert Trautmann perfectly, but if you want the most honest version of his life, I strongly recommend to read at least the Wikipedia page. This is still a movie, so there is fiction.

The movie is slow paced. I would have personally cut some scenes about the love story between Bert and Margaret. It took too much time on screen and most of these sequences are fillers, made mainly to hit the 2 hours length. Especially during the ending there are definitely too many details that are useless for the purpose of the story. On a side note, the movie does not represent the 40s and the 50s society in a truthful way, but honestly I can pass on that because it is not about the context of those years, but about a public figure.

"Trautmann" is a decent movie about the life of the first foreign football player in Manchester City team, but do not expect an extremely accurate recreation of events. I have to tell that, from a technical perspective I was surprised, especially when it came for football matches scenes that seem real. Acting is also good, there is a nice chemistry between different actors. The two leads are very convincing in their performances.

The Keeper is based on the life of Bernhard Carl "Bert" Trautmann, a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Manchester City (1949-1964). The film is a journey through Bert's life, beginning when he was a German POW in England who falls in love with a local girl, while playing soccer for her father's team, and continues by exploring his eventful personal life and soccer career. Although there is some dramatic license taken, this film, in and of itself, is an enjoyable story of love, forgiveness, and a man who overcame incredible odds. The acting and cinematography are decent . The editing could have been better, but the story is inspiring and entertaining, IMHO! April 2021. (after you watch the movie, don't forget to check out the trivia section for some details on Bert and Margaret)

Amazing film full of real emotional depth and wonder

A script tailormade to manipulate audiences, even though it is a biopic with some historical facts. The plus points: Ken Loach's star John Henshaw ("Angel's Share","Looking for Eric") is believable. Very effective is the rendering of "Abide with me" by the lead actress Freya Mavor.

Too cliched to be anything more than an ok biopic. There's a scene with juxtaposed tombstones which goes beyond cliche into outright bad

Moving (true) story about a German POW turned soccer superstar in enemy country UK after WWII.

Part of the story is of course the culture clash. Language always plays a part.

So why did we only get to see a dubbed version in German?? Took probably half of the charme out.

Moving (true) story about a German POW turned soccer superstar in enemy country UK after WWII.

Part of the story is of course the culture clash. Language always plays a part.

So why did we only get to see a dubbed version in German?? Took probably half of the charme out.

Moving (true) story about a German POW turned soccer superstar in enemy country UK after WWII.

Part of the story is of course the culture clash. Language always plays a part.

So why did we only get to see a dubbed version in German?? Took probably half of the charme out.

I really enjoy this movie, beautiful story and good acting! The actor David Kross is so handsome! The movie teaches us that it is easier to hate than to love. If we can learn to love, we can move on and set us free. We all can learn a lesson from this movie. The ending is so touching and makes me cry. The music is fantastic and cinematography is superb! 9 out of 10.