• Genre: Boxer-Drama
• theatrical start: 20.11.2008
• DVD start: 09.2009
• german cinematography price 2008 Dokumentary/Feature

A wonderful story, magically told through a tiy eye of the camera in a mixture of documentary and feature film.

About rediscovering someones own identity -

Comeback is a true and direct film about a 35 year old, who against all odds tries to win back his identiy as a professional boxer.

• cast: Jürgen „The Rock“ Hartenstein, Markus Kone
• author, director & cinematography: Maximilian Plettau
• production: HFF-München with BR and Loopfilm GmbH

Synopsis:

In a bleak in Munich, we find Jürgen "The Rock" Hartenstein living and training. The ageing german ex-professional boxer eschews woman and alcohol, and any creature comforts, earning his meagre living as a pub bouncer. He is entirely on his own, with no manager standing behind him, forced to train in city parks and in the dark, seedy attic of his african trainer Markus Krone, while their own gym is built.

From a call shop, every week for months, he has been phoning matchmakers in the USA. Because this former german middlewight champion has a dream: he wants to make a comeback. He needs a win against a US boxer to get him back in the game, six years after massive losses forced him to quit. So off it's to US boxing capital Philadelphia, to fight despite the odds, knowing that this is the underdog's only chance... (text by Dokumentary Festival Munich)

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