Joe and Max
Joe and Max is a 2002 AmericanGerman boxing film directed by Steve James and based on the true story of the two boxing matches between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling.
The German boxer returns home. The reigning Nazis strive to exploit his coup for their propaganda, but he refuses to sign a treatise supporting the Nazi line because for him it is unthinkable to comply with the racial policy of Nazi Germany. Only his currently huge popularity saves him from their wrath. Moreover, Schmeling is allowed to keep his manager despite all the discrimination Jews are facing in Germany at this time. Nevertheless, Hitler Rolf Kanies himself forces Schmeling to sign the Nazi treatise at last.Schmeling feels he owes Louis a rematch. This time the USAmerican audience is completely against Schmeling because the Nazis have succeeded in using him in their propaganda. Right at the beginning of this fight Schmeling is hit in the lumbar region and suffers a spinal injury. Unable to keep on fighting he must forfeit. Joe Louis visits him after the fight when Schmeling is being treated in a hospital. ........
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