Schalke on the big screen? Silly game. Germany and its football movies are not always Oscar material, and that includes Football Is Our Life, Tomy Wigand’s 2000 film about the life and suffering of “Hans Pollack”, played by Uwe Ochsenknecht, and his fellow Schalke fanatics.
Rudi Assauer, Huub Stevens, cult attendant Charly Neumann and players such as Yves Eigenrauch, Olaf Thon and Mike Büskens all tried their hand at acting. The result was, as one review put it, another proletarian comedy with dramatic tendencies.