Ein Sommer in Italien - WM 1990

The documentary takes up the World Cup of 1990. The tournament was held in Italy that year. The film goes back to that summer. What happened on the pitch is at the centre of the account. Players who took part speak in the film. Jürgen Klinsmann is among them. Thomas Häßler and Guido Buchwald are in it as well. Lothar Matthäus and Pierre Littbarski appear too. Franz Beckenbauer is inside the account. Coaches and people who witnessed those days speak as well. The work uses archive footage together with those conversations. Private videos never shown before are among the material. Sound recordings and personal memories are added to them. The tournament ended with Germany winning the cup. The film places that summer inside the political climate of the country at the time. German reunification was only a short time away. Nadja Kölling and Vanessa Nöcker’s German documentary of 2026 runs ninety seven minutes.