Two Half Times in Hell
Two Half Times in Hell Hungarian Kt flid a pokolban, also known as The Last Goal, is a 1962 Hungarian war drama film directed and cowritten by Zoltn Fbri. The film is based on a 1942 football match between German soldiers and their Ukrainian prisoners of war during World War II, known as the Death Match though in the film, the prisoners of war are Hungarian.
Spring 1944. Nazi officers want to organize a football match for Hitlers birthday, in which Germans would play against Hungarian labour servicemen of war. They call for the famous Hungarian footballer, ndi, and order him to organize a team. ndi accepts, but in turn demands extra food, a ball with which he and his team can train before the match, and asks that they be allowed to concentrate on training before the match and not work. The Germans accept all the demands, but recommend ndi not include any Jews in his team. However, ndi cant organize the team only from his company, because onlyout of 98 Hungarian labour servicemen can play football. Therefore, ndi recruits players from the other company. One of the players is Steiner, who is a Jew and cant play football. He lied to ndi because he was afraid to die. During training the footballers subdue the Hungarian corporal guarding them and try to escape. They are soon recaptured and told they will now face probable death penalty. However, the Hungarian officer orders the Hungarian team to still play the match. At the beginning of the match ndi and his team are discouraged, as the Germans easily score three goals. The Hungarians succeed in scoring one goal and the first half endsin favour of Germany. At the interval the Hungarian commander tells the Hungarian players that they might not be executed if they lose the match. The Hungarians refuse to believe this. At the beginning of the second half they score three goals. As a result, during the match, they are executed by the Germans.
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