Overview
- ARTE airs the three-part documentary consecutively and commercial-free from 20:15, presenting all episodes in one evening broadcast.
- The rebroadcast follows just over a week after the second anniversary of Franz Beckenbauer’s death.
- Director Torsten Körner describes the work as a societal biography that explores football’s meaning in postwar Germany through Beckenbauer’s story.
- Interviewees include Günther Jauch, Matthias Brandt, Michel Platini, Wolfgang Thierse, and Beckenbauer’s brother Walter, alongside extensive original audio of Beckenbauer.
- The 2006 World Cup payments affair is noted without new investigation, with Swiss proceedings against Beckenbauer separated in 2019 and later time-barred.