Alles für das Fußballspiel

As many of the Romanian movies of that era, "Everything for football" it's a distinctive melange of charming and hideous scenes altogether. Even though this comedy is full of blatant propagandist communist ideas is still worth watching and enjoyable. The board of a small town's football team is ready to do everything in order to stay clear in the national second division.

The decisive match is ready to be played and anyone is trying to support the home team to win and to avoid relegation. This generates many comic facts, political intrigues, individual passions, in a word the whole town goes crazy. As it has been said it's a local and timed movie from points of view which brings you in a era when football was serving rather to the politic state.

But there is a scene in it of such a charming lost simplicity- above and beyond spoken language-(Romanians comedies are mostly about language) which saves the entire movie. A black and white shot scene of a few children playing in the backyard with a ball made of clothes. In the first scene, the game ends when they break a window and in the final one, at sunset when their mothers come for them. And "Everything for football" it's neither local nor timed anymore...