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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.
Mar 23, 2018 · Adhering strictly to Peter Handke’s Existentialist novella, Wenders visually pays homage to Hitchcock, yet refuses crime narrative conventions, the satisfying revelations of psychological insight or a reliable protagonist.
Sep 10, 2012 · The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty outdoes even Wenders' subsequent Alice in the Cities in its sense that everything shown is at once subjective and objective. German goalie Bloch...
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (German: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter) is a 1972 German-language detective film, directed by Wim Wenders. It is also known as The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick .
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz. Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.
- (2.3K)
- Drama, Sport
- Wim Wenders
- 1977-01-13
Wenders characterizes the film as his first work. He had in fact already made several short films and the full-length film Summer in the City, but it was Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty) which made him known to a wider public.
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The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. Adapted from a novel by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, Wim Wenders’s first theatrical feature crosses Hitchcock with Kafka for an arresting study of existential ennui, violence, and the lure of American culture in postwar Europe.
