2006 · documentary · sports
Germany: A Summer's Fairytale
Directed by Sönke Wortmann1h 50m2006
A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.
Our read: Germany: A Summer's Fairytale (2006) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded documentary · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle documentary / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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