Hannu Salonen
Ivo-Alexander Beck, Florian Bartholomäi
Domenik Pockberger, Stephan Falk
Oliver Masucci, Felix Kammerer, Svenja Jung, Leonard Kunz, Axel Milberg
West Germany, late 1950s. In a small town on the East German border, physics teacher Karl Adam sees what no one else does: in a fatherless generation of angry young outsiders, the raw material of champions. He puts them in a rowing eight—giving their rage a rhythm, their lives a direction. While Germany's elitist rowing establishment mocks the schoolteacher and his misfits, the Cold War cuts deeper: rower Hans's great love lives just miles away—behind a border he can no longer cross. And the forces dividing the country threaten to tear the crew apart. Against exhaustion, ridicule, and the weight of the past, Adam forges eight individuals into a single stroke. At the Olympic Games, the team no one believed in takes its lane—ready to make history.
2026