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Playoff full movie is released on Nov 24, 2011. Watch Playoff online - the English Drama movie from Germany , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $10,905. Playoff is directed by Eran Riklis and created by David Akerman with Danny Huston and Amira Casar.

Playoff tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team - of all people! - into European winners. Max always maintains that Germany - where he was born before the war - means nothing to him, and that training their national team is just another job on his path to NBA glory. But things aren't as simple as he refuses to speak German to the young players. The only person he seems to be able to relate to is a Turkish immigrant woman Deniz, and her cheeky teenage daughter Sema. Max just about falls in love with Deniz - and does succeed in reinventing the Germans as European champions. When he discovers what happened to his own family in the 1940s - it is not what he had expected. And he will realize that one cannot run away forever from one's own past and demons. Playoff is inspired by the life of Ralph Klein, Israel's most famous basketball coach, ever.

As know as:

Playoff

Countries:

Germany, France, Israel

Language:

English, German, Turkish, Hebrew

Production Companies:

Egoli Tossell Pictures, Fidélité Films, Topia Communications

Gross worldwide:

$10,905

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