The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty

The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
Directed by	Wim Wenders
Produced by	Peter Genée Thomas Schamoni
Written by	Peter Handke Wim Wenders
Based on	The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
Starring	Arthur Brauss Erika Pluhar Kai Fischer
Music by	Jürgen Knieper
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Edited by	Peter Przygodda
Distributed by	Bauer International (U.S.)
Release dates	19 February 1972 (1972-02-19)
Running time	101 min.
Country	West Germany Austria
Language	German
Budget	DM 620,000 (estimated)

The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (German: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter) is a 1972 German-language drama film directed by Wim Wenders. It is also known as The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. It was adapted from the novel with the same title by Peter Handke.^[1]

Plot

A goalkeeper is sent off during a game for dissent. He spends the night with a cinema cashier, whom he afterwards kills. Although a type of detective film, it is more slow moving and contemplative than other films of the genre. It explores the monotony of the murderer's existence and, like many of Wenders' films, the overwhelming cultural influence of America in post-war West Germany.

Origin of the title

Late in the movie, the goalkeeper and a traveling salesman attend a football game, and witness a penalty kick. The goalkeeper describes what it is like to face a penalty: should he dive to one side, and if he does will the kicker aim for the other? It is a psychological confrontation in which each tries to outfox the other. In parallel with this, the goalkeeper, rather than go on the run, has returned to his home town and is living in plain sight. He doesn't know if the police are looking for him in particular, and the police are not necessarily looking for someone who isn't trying to hide.

References

↑ "Peter Handke". filmportal.de (in German). Deutsches Filminstitut. Retrieved 2012-04-19.

External links

Films directed by Wim Wenders

Summer in the City (1970)
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
Road Movie trilogy
- Alice in the Cities (1974)
- The Wrong Move (1975)
- Kings of the Road (1976)
The American Friend (1977)
Lightning Over Water (1980)
Room 666 (1982)
Hammett (1982)
The State of Things (1982)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
Until the End of the World (1991)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
A Trick of Light (1995)
The End of Violence (1997)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
"Twelve Miles to Trona" in Ten Minutes Older (2002)
The Soul of a Man (2003)
Land of Plenty (2004)
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Palermo Shooting (2008)
"Person to Person" in 8 (2008)
Pina (2011)
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

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