Well worth seeing documentary by André Schäfer about the most famous football anthem in the world. The film will be presented by Joachim Król. The cinema release is today, May 18, 2017 ...
In many football stadiums, fans sing “You'll Never Walk Alone” before the game; the song seems to have become one with the fan culture.
There is actually no mention of football in the text.
Instead, they sing about a storm in which you want to duck your head, in which dreams are storm-whipped and blown, tossed and blown.
And, of course, in which one should not let hope sink in spite of everything: "Walk on, walk on"! Nothing but a perseverance slogan in C major?
The documentary tells the amazing career of this song.
It's a long, exciting, and wonderful story. Hans Albers appears in it as does Jürgen Klopp, the musical geniuses Rodger & Hammerstein give it a decisive twist, Beatles manager Brian Epstein and the Mersey beat of the 1960s that he brought to world fame echo in it, as do Campino and the dead Pants.
And who would have thought that the stadium anthem had its first roots in Budapest at the beginning of the 20th century?
It was there in 1909 (the same year when Borussia was founded in Dortmund) that the then world-famous author Ferenc Molnár wrote a new play: “Liliom”. The film tells how this piece comes to New York via Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, where the musical authors Rodgers and Hammerstein set it to music as "Carousel" for Broadway and create the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" finds odd ways into the Liverpool of the Beat era, into the stadium of Liverpool FC and from there around the world.
The actor and self-confessed soccer fan Joachim Król guides you through the film and follows in the footsteps of the song. He speaks to actors, musicians and football enthusiasts, including Jürgen Klopp and Campino, with the conductor Thomas Hengelbrock from the Balthasar Neumann Choir, with Mavie Hörbiger and with John Lennon's friend Gerry Marsden, the frontman of the Liverpool band “Gerry and the Pacemakers "Which made" You'll Never Walk Alone "the number one hit in the UK.
The song and its story appear to have been pieced together to form a portrait of the 20th century, a grandiose, Hungarian-Viennese-German-American-English, transnational co-production. As a global cultural asset, the anthem is one of the most famous and most sung songs on the planet - surpassed only by “White Christmas” (but is independent of the season).
In unmatched simple words, hymnically and sangable, this song goes outrageously inexorably first into the ear, then to the heart and gives hope that no loneliness, no desertion, no thunderstorm will last forever.
Because at the end of the line you have each other and it applies to all future: You'll Never Walk Alone.