DAVE JOHNS

THE KEEPER (2019)
Starring David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Michael Socha, Dave Johns, Chloe Harris, Gary Lewis, Mikey Collins, Angus Barnett and Dervla Kirwan. Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller.

Based on an incredible true story, Bert Trautmann joined the Wehrmacht as a paratrooper at the age of 17. After receiving five medals for bravery he was captured by the British towards the end of the War, arriving in north-west England as a prisoner. During this time, a local football manager noticed Bert’s exceptional talent as a soccer goalkeeper. His subsequent signing by Man City brought passionate protests from the people of Manchester, a city that had been severely bombed in the War. However, against all odds he won over even his harshest critics during the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956. After an on-field accident, Bert broke his neck... and continued playing to secure victory.

REVIEWS The Keeper - The true story of the Nazi goalkeeper and the English girl

I, DANIEL BLAKE (2016)
Starring Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann, Kate Rutter, Sharon Percy, Kema Sikazwe, Natalie Ann Jamieson, Micky McGregor and Colin Coombs. Directed by Ken Loach.

Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle, UK. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.

TRAUTTMAN
Starring David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Dave Johns, Chloe Harris, Gary Lewis, Mikey Collins, Angus Barnett, Ian T. Dickinson and Dervla Kirwan. Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller.

Based on an incredible true story, Bert Trautmann joined the Wehrmacht as a paratrooper at the age of 17. After receiving five medals for bravery he was captured by the British towards the end of the War, arriving in north-west England as a prisoner. During this time, a local football manager noticed Bert’s exceptional talent as a soccer goalkeeper. His subsequent signing by Man City brought passionate protests from the people of Manchester, a city that had been severely bombed in the War. However, against all odds he won over even his harshest critics during the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956. After an on- field accident, Bert broke his neck... and continued playing to secure victory.