BERLIN 36Sun, June 20 @ 11:00 am  $5 All Seats. Loosely based on the life of Gretel Bergmann, a German-Jewish high jumper. With Hitler in power and the 1936 Summer Olympics scheduled for Berlin, the fascists have struck a major public relations coup, the United States threatens to boycott the Berlin Olympics if there are no Jews on the German team. Forced to join the Germans, Gretel Bergmann is now an olympian. Hitler had his token Jew, but how can he guarantee she won't win a medal? With seemingly no other German female high jumper around who could challenge Gretel, the unknown Marie Ketteler is suddenly introduced as a member of the team. Marginalized by the rest of the athletes, the two rivals forge a tenuous friendship, with Marie carrying a secret that puts their friendship and a hidden Nazi agenda to the test … Dir. Kaspar Heidelbach, Germany 2009, 1h41m min, DVD 
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