Max Schmeling (2010)

Pomeranian (NE German) boxer Max Schmelling, a fair, courageous gentleman, becomes world champion and a national hero in the early 1930s, winning the hand of singer Anny Ondra. Just for loosing against younger, fitter colored American Joe Louis, the Nazi regime lifts Max's privileges and sends him to the front, hoping he'll be killed in action. Yet he survives the conquest of Crete and by freeing a British prisoner unwittingly saves his own skin when after the Soviet conquest of his home region, Max is nearly taken PoW. He starts all over, although rather too old, with remarkable results.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anti-semitic-slur, anti-semitism, archive-footage, athlete, bare-chested-male, berlin-germany, boxer, boxing-match

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'Max Schmeling' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Schmeling, Max Filmography

• Play in Full Screen On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tyson

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Joe Louis: America's Hero... Betrayed

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Das Goebbels-Experiment

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Super Fight: Marciano vs. Ali

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Das Fernsehen unter dem Hakenkreuz

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Boxes Heuser
• Play in Full Screen The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brother Can You Spare a Dime

  1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Glückspilze

  1971, role: actor , character name: Polizist
• Play in Full Screen The Super Fight

  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A.k.a. Cassius Clay

  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Max Schmeling vs. Young Stribling

  1965, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen World's Heavyweight Championship Fight: Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson

  1961, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen Zwei auf einem Pferd

  1957, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Die Zürcher Verlobung

  1957, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Zu Gast bei Margot Hielscher

  1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Joe Louis Story

  1953, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Roar of the Crowd

  1953, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Keine Angst vor großen Tieren

  1953, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Herrliche Zeiten

  1950, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ce siècle a cinquante ans

  1950, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Prelude to War

  1942, role: actor , character name: German Paratrooper
• Play in Full Screen Das große Spiel

  1942, role: actor , character name: Zuschauer des Fussballspiels
• Play in Full Screen Es leuchten die Sterne

  1938, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Great International Heavyweight Boxing Contest Between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling

  1936, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann

  1935, role: actor , character name: Max Breuer
• Play in Full Screen Max Baer vs. Max Schmeling

  1933, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Max Schmeling vs. Mickey Walker

  1932, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Liebe im Ring

  1930, role: actor , character name: Max - Sohn der Obsthänderlin
• Play in Full Screen Liebe im Ring

  1930, role: actor , character name: Son of The Fruit Peddler

Famous quotes by Max Schmeling:

"All these people under age 50 are going to think my dad, Max Baer, is a total pig,"

"Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal."

"I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?"

Max Schmeling

Born: 1905-09-28

Died: 2005-02-02