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The Keeper tells the extraordinary love story of a young Englishwoman 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, daughter of the manager of the local football team, notices young German soldier Bert Trautmann. Her father is so taken by Berts prowess as a goal-keeper that he gets him out of the camp to play for his local team. Margaret and Berts love blossoms despite local hostility and the resentment of the German PoWs. In the meantime, Berts heroics in goal are noticed by Manchesters 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 campaign against Bert. Berts path to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man City by playing on despite breaking his neck. Yet fate twists the knife for both Margaret and Bert. Alienated and alone, Margarets and Berts loyalty to each other will be put to the test once more. Heartbroken, Bert wants to give up. Equally heartbroken, Margaret insists that they move forward and that he keeps on playing.
A love story, a tale of huge sporting talent, and something more than both, The Keeper (based on a true story) follows Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German Prisoner of War whose exceptional skills on the soccer field get him noticed by a local football team. Impressed by Berts prowess as a goal-keeper, the team manager gets him out of the camp to play for his team. Meanwhile, love blossoms between the managers daughter Margaret and Bert despite local hostility. Berts subsequent signing by Manchester City brings passionate protests from the people of a city that had been severely bombed in the war. However, against all odds he wins over even his harshest critics during the FA Cup Final in 1956.
David Kross
Bert Trautmann
Freya Mavor
Margaret Friar
John Henshaw
Jack Friar
Harry Melling
Sergeant Smythe
Michael Socha
Bill Twist
Julian Sands
Man City President Tilson
Dave Johns
Roberts
Barbara Young
Grandma Sarah
Chloe Harris
Betsy Walters
Mikey Collins
Alf Myers
Gary Lewis
Jock Thompson
Dervla Kirwan
Clarice Friar
Angus Barnett
Clive Thornton
Olivia-Rose Minnis
Barbara Friar
Butz Ulrich Buse
Rabbi Altmann
David Schütter
Richard Holthaus
Shenja Lacher
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