Bert Trautmann: From unlikely football hero to film star
Somewhere along the way, the name Bernd became Bert.
"But that's not a big problem because the story really has to work as a love story and a family drama. It's not just a sports bio-pic, although of course the football scenes have to be convincing." From the ages of nine to 13 Mavor lived in La Rochelle on France's Atlantic coast; at 19 she moved to Paris. Her fluency in the language means she's been in several French films."I've always loved French cinema and I was obsessed with not sounding like a tourist. So it's brilliant to be accepted as an honorary French person in film.""The big test was to sound authentic for people in St Helens and Manchester now," Mavor says.
The film starts with a short but powerful section in which we see Trautmann fighting in World War Two. Kross says those scenes were essential."We have to understand the times he grew up in and the criminal regime which dominated Germany. Bert was part of the Hitler Youth and he went through a sort of brainwashing.
In the last part of his life, Trautmann lived in Spain and it was there that director Rosenmüller went to talk to him, several years before filming began. "Visually the German and English versions are 98% the same and David was in the odd position of dubbing himself into his own language. Almost all the German is spoken early on and in fact that helps the drama - the audience sees that Bert is lost in a world he doesn't understand."
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