Credited cast: | |||
David Kross | ... | Bert Trautmann | |
Freya Mavor | ... | Margaret | |
John Henshaw | ... | Jack Friar | |
Harry Melling | ... | Sergeant Smythe | |
Michael Socha | ... | Bill Twist | |
Dave Johns | ... | Roberts | |
Barbara Young | ... | Grandma Sarah | |
Chloe Harris | ... | Betsy | |
Mikey Collins | ... | Alf Myers | |
Gary Lewis | ... | Jock Thompson | |
Dervla Kirwan | ... | Clarice Friar | |
Angus Barnett | ... | Clive Thornton | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Max Befort | ... | Poll | |
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Achim Bogdahn | ... | Referee |
Stephan Buschmann | ... | Spectator Fan from ManCity |
The Keeper tells the extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy. While visiting a PoW camp near Manchester at the end of WWII, Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of the local football team, notices young German soldier Bert Trautmann. Her father is so taken by Bert's prowess as a goal-keeper that he gets him out of the camp to play for his local team. Margaret and Bert's love blossoms despite local hostility and resentment of the German PoWs. In the meantime, Bert's heroics in goal are noticed by Manchester's City Football Club. Rather than going back to Germany like nearly all the other camp inmates, Bert marries Margaret and signs for Man City. His signing causes outrage to thousands of Man City fans, many of them Jewish. But Margaret wins support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Altmann, a Man City supporter who fled the Nazis, who publishes an open letter opposing the ...
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.