Réalisation:
Buket AlakuşPhotographie:
Bella HalbenMusique:
Ali N. AskinActeurs·trices:
Karoline Herfurth, Ken Duken, Thierry van Werveke, Katrin Pollitt, Paula Paul, Zarah Jane McKenzie, Nikola Kastner, Sarah Maria Besgen (plus)Résumés(1)
For Hayat, a 20-year-old girl of Turkish-German background, football is the most important thing in her life. She's the best and most spirited player on her football team. But all of a sudden she's got other things to think about. The doctors diagnose breast cancer. The operation changes her life, but she's a fighter and soon wants to pick up where she left off. Hayat grew up with her father Baba Can – her mother died of cancer when Hayat was still a small child. No wonder that Baba Can is worried about his daughter. He forbids her to overdo and most of all to play football, and cancels her membership in the team. But he hasn't reckoned with the tenacity of his daughter. Behind his back she joins up with ragtag bunch of social misfits who make up the Hamburg woman's football team FC Schanze. Soon the girls are swept along by her courage and enthusiasm. Not only the team, but above all the trainer Toni is impressed by her. But he can't seem to understand why his attempts to flirt with her are nipped in the bud. Hayat is no less attracted to him, but for obvious reasons, she feels completely insecure. Should she confide her secret to him? How will he react when she tells him about the operation? OFFSIDE, the director explains, is "not a story about an illness, but rather deals with finding a way back into life. In this extreme situation football becomes literally a game of life or death for my protagonist, because sports help her to accept her body anew." (Berlinale)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Karoline Herfurth
Allemagne de l'Est
Meilleurs films :
The Reader (2008)
Le Parfum : Histoire d'un meurtrier (2006)
Vincent, ses amis et sa mer (2010)
Ken Duken
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Karol : L'homme qui devint Pape (2005) (téléfilm)
Sotto il cielo di Roma (2010) (téléfilm)
Thierry van Werveke
Suisse
Meilleurs films :
Paradis Express (1997)
La Rébellion (1993) (téléfilm)
Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen (1994)
Katrin Pollitt
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
De tweeling (2002)
Lore (2012)
Sehnsucht nach Jack (2000)
Paula Paul
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Barefoot (2005)
Absolute Giganten (1999)
C'est pas moi, c'est mon tic (2011)
Zarah Jane McKenzie
Meilleurs films :
Head on (2004)
Honig im Kopf (2014)
Soul Kitchen (2009)
Nikola Kastner
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Dark Woods (2020) (série)
Phoenix (2014)
Eine Andere Liga (2005)
Sarah Maria Besgen
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Eine Andere Liga (2005)
Papa auf Probe (2013) (téléfilm)
World Express - Atemlos durch Mexiko (2011) (téléfilm)
Charlotte Crome
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Free Rainer (2007)
Dark Woods (2020) (série)
Kebab connection (2004)
Nursel Köse
Turquie
Meilleurs films :
L'Etrangère (2010)
De l'autre côté (2007)
Kebab connection (2004)
Ruth Weyand
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Eine Andere Liga (2005)
Tatort (1970) (série)
Verena Wolfien
Meilleurs films :
Eine Andere Liga (2005)
Amigo - Bei Ankunft Tod (2010) (téléfilm)
Cécile Gujer
Meilleurs films :
Détectives en herbe (2017)
Eine Andere Liga (2005)
Rosenstrasse, Berlin 1943 (2003)