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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Much of the football matches in the game follow contemporary rules, rather than rules of the 1940s. For instance, the rule where injured players could be substituted was not codified until 1958. Prior to this, most injured players were not allowed to be substituted at all.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Was based on a RealLife incident in Ukraine with a much more depressing DownerEnding. The occupying Nazis forced the Ukrainian team to play several matches against them as a publicity stunt. When the home team {{Curb Stomp| Battle}}ed them, the Nazis [[SoreLoser had them tortured, shipped off to work camps, and executed]].
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Was The film is loosely based on a RealLife incident in German-occupied Ukraine with a much more depressing DownerEnding. The occupying Nazis forced the Ukrainian team to play several matches against them as a publicity stunt. When According to the "official" Soviet version of the story, when the home team {{Curb Stomp| Battle}}ed them, the Nazis [[SoreLoser had them tortured, shipped off to work camps, and executed]].executed]]. However, historians and surviving players noted that the German players [[VillainousValour played fairly]] and did not cheat, and while some players were indeed executed, it was for reasons unrelated to the football match.
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* BathroomBreakOut: Hatch escapes the POW camp by climbing out of the showers, the team later through a hole in the showers at the Stadium.
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* BathroomBreakOut: Hatch escapes the POW camp by climbing out of the showers, shower block. Later, the team later through have the opportunity to escape via a hole tunnel dug into their bathroom in the showers at the Stadium.stadium.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster displays the word "Victory" alone and shows Caine, Stallone, and Pelé forming the letter 'V'. The match ends in a draw.
* DoomedMoralVictor: The Allied team is made mostly of retired football stars but is against a professional football team that practices UnnecessaryRoughness and is heavily favored by the referee. They score more goals, but one is disallowed.
* DoomedMoralVictor: The Allied team is made mostly of retired football stars but is against a professional football team that practices UnnecessaryRoughness and is heavily favored by the referee. They score more goals, but one is disallowed.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster displays the word "Victory" alone and shows Caine, Stallone, and Pelé forming the letter 'V'. The match actually ends in a draw.
* DoomedMoralVictor: The Allied team is made mostly ofretired former football stars but is against a professional football team that practices UnnecessaryRoughness and is heavily favored by the referee. They score more goals, but one is disallowed.
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* LocalReference: Stallone plays an American prisoner in a mostly British-occupied German POW camp.
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* LocalReference: Stallone plays an American prisoner (albeit one in a Canadian uniform) in a mostly British-occupied German POW camp.
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* MasterForger: When Robert Hatch requires documents for his escape attempt, he goes to a fellow POW identified only as "The Forger". He not only has [[MacGyvering made his own camera]] to take pictures for the documents, but he's also gotten samples for all kinds of official documents (like government death declarations -- good if your cover for moving around is going to a funeral) and has hand-carved a number of fake stamps. He even jokes to Hatch that the Germans are pretty inconsiderate with their habit of constantly changing document designs to try to stop people like him.
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* MasterForger: When Robert Hatch requires documents for his escape attempt, he goes to a fellow POW identified only as "The Forger". He not only has [[MacGyvering made his own camera]] to take pictures for the documents, but he's also gotten samples for all kinds of official documents (like government death declarations -- good if your cover for moving around is going to a funeral) and has hand-carved a number of fake stamps. He even jokes to Hatch that the Germans are pretty inconsiderate with their habit of constantly changing document designs to try to stop people like him.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: DownplayedTrope. Colby and the Major were professional footballers before the war and participated in common competitions, which is why they are rather chummy despite being prisoner and captor and enemies in the war.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: DownplayedTrope. Colby and the Major were professional footballers before the war and participated in common competitions, competitions [[note]] although England had not taken part in any of the pre-war World Cup tournaments [[/note]], which is why they are rather chummy despite being prisoner and captor and enemies in the war.
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* ButNotTooForeign: The POW camp appears to be one for British soldiers. Hatch, an American, is shown wearing a Canadian uniform and is said to have volunteered before the USA entered the war, while Fernandez is said to be Trinidadian. Both can therefore be classified as Commonwealth soldiers, which explains why they are in the same camp as Brits.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster displays the word "Victory" alone and shows Caine, Stallone, and Pelé forming the letter 'V'. The match ends in a draw.
* DoomedMoralVictor: The Allied team is made mostly of retired football stars but is against a professional football team that practices UnnecessaryRoughness and is heavily favored by the referee. They score more goals, but one is disallowed.
* DoomedMoralVictor: The Allied team is made mostly of retired football stars but is against a professional football team that practices UnnecessaryRoughness and is heavily favored by the referee. They score more goals, but one is disallowed.
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* AnachronismStew: The crowd that invades the match at the end wear mostly 1981 hairstyles and clothes.
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* AnachronismStew: The crowd that invades the match pitch at the end wear mostly 1981 hairstyles and clothes.
* LostInACrowd: The players eventually escape by joining the mass of French spectators that invade the pitch after the match is over, being given jackets and hats by the Resistance fighters. The German Major still spots Colby among the crowd, but allows him to go.
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* UnderdogsNeverLose: Played with. [[spoiler:The final goal ''ties'' the game at 4-4, despite the referee's obvious bias towards the German team. Given that the Allied team had a perfectly good goal disallowed earlier in the game, though, they could claim a moral victory.]]
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* UnderdogsNeverLose: Played with. [[spoiler:The The final goal ''ties'' the game at 4-4, despite the referee's obvious bias towards the German team. Given that the Allied team had a perfectly good goal disallowed earlier in the game, though, they could claim a moral victory.]]
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A 1981 film (also known as ''Victory'' in North America) set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, in which a [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] team formed by Allied prisoners of war is forced to face a German team.
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A 1981 film (also known as ''Victory'' in North America) set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, directed by Creator/JohnHuston, in which a [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] team formed by Allied prisoners of war is forced to face a German team.
team in Occupied France during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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John Colby (Michael Caine) is a former professional footballer, now prisoner of war in a German camp, who gets roped in by the German camp commander ([[Creator/MaxvonSydow Max von Sydow]]) to have a team of his choosing play an exhibition match against a German team. While Colby begins to get his team ready for the game (which includes several [=POWs=] from other camps, and Antillan Luis Fernandez (Pelé)), Canadian Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) is trying to escape the camp, and gets into the team to get advantage of the relaxed security around the team. When it turns out that the game will be played in Paris, the [[LaResistance French Resistance]] agrees to help the team escape at halftime, but when the choice becomes between escaping and winning the match, things change a lot.
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John Colby (Michael Caine) is a former professional footballer, now prisoner of war in a German camp, who gets roped in by the German camp commander ([[Creator/MaxvonSydow Max von Sydow]]) to have a team of his choosing play an exhibition match against a German team. While Colby begins to get his team ready for the game (which includes several [=POWs=] from other camps, and Antillan Luis Fernandez (Pelé)), Canadian camps), American Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) is trying to escape the camp, and gets into the team to get advantage of the relaxed security around the team. it. When it turns out that the game will be played in Paris, the [[LaResistance French Resistance]] agrees to help the team escape at halftime, but when the choice becomes between escaping and winning the match, things change a lot.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Soccer not being popular in North America at the time, Hatch misunderstands what a "tackle" is in soccer. However, because of his experience using his hands in Canadian Football, he is the natural choice to be the goalkeeper.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Soccer not being popular in North America at the time, Hatch misunderstands what a "tackle" is in soccer. However, because of his experience using his hands in Canadian Football, UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball, he is the natural choice to be the goalkeeper.
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* BadJobWorseUniform: The team is given all red, long-sleeved fatigues to train in (depicted in the poster), which earns them the laughs and taunts of other prisoners.
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* LighterAndSofter: A feel-good story for all audiences, inspired by a nightmare-inducing real life incident (see VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory below).
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* LighterAndSofter: A feel-good story for all audiences, inspired by a nightmare-inducing real life incident (see VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory below).and below). The Hungarian film ''Two Half-Times in Hell'' is closer to WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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* SleepingDummy: Hatch leaves a fake head on his bed while he escapes through the showers so the Germans won't know he's gone until the morning. The other players take it out with them for the morning recount and have a laugh at the guards, taking advantage of the fact that they can't discipline all without canceling the match.
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* BathroomBreakOut: Hatch escapes the POW camp by climbing out of the showers, the team later through a hole in the showers at the Stadium.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Hatch is instructed to let himself be captured again by the Germans in order to relay intelligence to people in the camp, under the reasoning that he will be taken to the same camp to show his companions that escape is futile.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Subverted because to get Hatch out of solitary they claim the previous goalkeeper has broken his arm, then break it for real.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: In order to get Hatch out of solitary, the team claims that he is the substitute goalkeeper and that their first choice has broken an arm. They then break the arm for real in order to maintain the ruse.
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* LocalReference: Stallone plays an American prisoner in a mostly British-occupied German POW camp.
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* WorthyOpponent: the German camp commander regards most of the [=POW=] team (especially Fernandez) as this when they start showing their worth. In particular, he stands and applauds Fernandez's overhead kick, even though his recognition of it means the referee can't use an excuse to disallow the goal.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: DownplayedTrope. Colby and the Major were professional footballers before the war and participated in common competitions, which is why they are rather chummy despite being prisoner and captor and enemies in the war.
* WorthyOpponent:the The German camp commander regards most of the [=POW=] team (especially Fernandez) as this when they start showing their worth. In particular, he stands and applauds Fernandez's overhead kick, even though his recognition of it means the referee can't use an excuse to disallow the goal.
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** the Germans tend to use quite brutal moves against their Allied opponents. Luis Fernandez in particular gets a lot of this. The referee, who's biased towards the Germans, ignores this.
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** the The Germans tend to use quite brutal moves against their Allied opponents. Luis Fernandez in particular gets a lot of this. The referee, who's biased towards the Germans, ignores this.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hatch tries to leave the team and escape several times through the movie, only to end getting back in for one reason or another.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hatch tries to leave the team and escape several times through the movie, only to end getting back in for one reason or another.
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* SoccerHatingAmericans: Hatch is an American serving in the Canadian Army. He has taken to soccer for lack of other sports at the POW camp but finds hard to let go of hand play and only wants to get in the team as a means to escape. By the end he comes to enjoy his role as a goalie and finishes the match instead of escaping earlier.
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* AnachronismStew: The crowd that invades the match at the end and allows the [=POWs=] to escape wears 1981 hairstyles and clothes.
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* FireForgedFriends: Colby and Hatch clash in the beginning because Colby knows that Hatch is a poor football player who only wants to get in the team as a means to escape the camp. By the end, however, they've grown into actual teammates to the point that both choose to stay and finish the match instead of escaping during half-time.
* FireForgedFriends: Colby and Hatch clash in the beginning because Colby knows that Hatch is a poor football player who only wants to get in the team as a means to escape the camp. By the end, however, they've grown into actual teammates to the point that both choose to stay and finish the match instead of escaping during half-time.
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* IChooseToStay: Though the French Resistance fulfills its vow to open a escape tunnel to the team's dressing room at half time, the players choose to stay and finish the match, having convinced themselves that they can win it.
* LaResistance: A French Resistance cell contacts the team and helps them escape during the match.
* LighterAndSofter: A feel-good story for all audiences, inspired by a nightmare-inducing real life incident (see VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory below).
* LaResistance: A French Resistance cell contacts the team and helps them escape during the match.
* LighterAndSofter: A feel-good story for all audiences, inspired by a nightmare-inducing real life incident (see VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory below).
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hatch tries to leave the team and escape several times through the movie, only to end getting back in for one reason or another.
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* AnachronismStew: The crowd that invades the match at the end and allows the [=POWs=] to escape wears 1981 hairstyles and clothes.
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* TokyoRose: A "Lord Haw-Haw" type is shown commentating the soccer match.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: When the German national anthem is played prior to the match, the German players are all doing the Nazi salute. So is the referee, which foreshadows his increasingly blatant bias towards the Germans during the match.
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Starring Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/MaxVonSydow, it also featured several professional footballers such as Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, Hallvar Thoresen, Werner Roth and, most famously, Pelé, as well as several Ipswich Town players.
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Starring Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/MaxVonSydow, it also featured several professional footballers such as Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, Hallvar Thoresen, Werner Roth and, most famously, Pelé, as well as several [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Ipswich Town Town]] players.
