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Das Schiff des Torjägers

The Goalgetter's Ship
Le navire du buteur

Germany / Switzerland, August 2010
FILM, Documentary, 91 min.

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directed by
Heidi Specogna
Written by
Kristine Kretschmer
Status
In distribution

In April 2001, a shipping report about a suspected child slavery ship off the coast of West Africa shook the world. When it became known that the owner of the ship was Jonathan Akpoborie, a player in the German Bundesliga, his club immediately parted company with the Nigerian striker. The footballer’s guilt was never proven. The film reconstructs the events and uses them as an opportunity to begin a present-day search for the then protagonists: for the footballer and for the children who were on board the ship at the time. The accounts and meetings create a German-African story about dreams, football and the trading commodity humans.

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World Premiere
August 2010
Original Version
French, English, German, African languages (german subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 91 min.
Production
UFA Fiction GmbH, FAMA FILM AG, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Jochen Laube
directed by
Heidi Specogna
Written by
Kristine Kretschmer
Cinemato­graphy
Rainer Hoffmann
Editing
Ursula Höf
Sound Editing
Kai Tebbel
Re-Recording Mix
Matthias Lempert
Music
Hans Koch
Location Sound Mix
Paul Oberle, Bernd von Bassewitz

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Paul Thiltges Distributions

Worldwide Distribution

Germany
W-Film Distribution Distribution
Release date: 08.11.2010

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