1994 World Cup – Eleven Heroes, One Nightmare

1994 World Cup – Eleven Heroes, One Nightmare (2026)

Documentary

Germany went into the 1994 World Cup as favourites and defending champions, but were knocked out in the quarter-finals. Internal conflicts, media campaigns and malice directed at manager Berti Vogts had led to the supposed ‘eleven friends’ – players such as Lothar Matthäus, Jürgen Klinsmann, Stefan Effenberg, Bodo Illgner and Matthias Sammer – manoeuvring themselves into a collective nightmare within a matter of weeks. ‘Eleven Heroes, One Nightmare’ takes a look behind the scenes of what was a memorable World Cup tournament for Germany and shows how one of the strongest German teams of all time failed spectacularly.

Director: Manfred Oldenburg

Casts

	Berti Vogts as Self
	Lothar Matthäus as Self
	Jürgen Klinsmann as Self
	Stefan Effenberg as Self
	Bodo Illgner as Self
	Matthias Sammer as Self
	Maurizio Gaudino as Self
	Thomas Helmer as Self
	Marcel Reif as Self
	Wolfram Eilenberger as
	Mario Basler as
	Reinhold Beckmann as
	Rainer Bonhof as
	Alfred Draxler as
	Maurizio Gaudino as
	Bianca Illgner as
	Uli Köhler as
	Andreas Köpke as
	Wolfgang Niersbach as
	Gaby Papenburg as
	Dietrich Schulze Marmeling as
	Harald Stenger as
	Christo Stoitschkow as
	Thomas Strunz as
	Peter Unfried as
	Rudi Völler as

Crew