Playing to Survive: Hitler vs Von Cramm – the incredible true story of a German tennis champion
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Host Demetra Giannakopoulos speaks with writer and director Annette Baumeister, about her documentary Playing to Survive: Hitler vs von Cramm about the true story of Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a gay German tennis champion of the 1930s and 1940s. Annette’s film provides a detailed and enthralling account using a combination of archive footage, narration by Pierce Brosnan, animation, and interviews with tennis legends including Stefan Edberg and Billie Jean King. The documentary reveals how von Cramm refused to join the Nazis, was imprisoned for being gay, was rejected by the tennis establishment including being banned from Wimbledon and the US Open, and yet supported by his rivals on the tennis tour.
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