Director:
Wim Wenders

Screenplay:
Wim Wenders
Peter Handke

Director of Photography:
Robby Müller

Editor:
Peter Przygodda

Music:
Jügen Knieper

Cast:
Arthur Brauss
Kai Fischer
Erika Pluhar
Libgart Schwarz

Producers:
Thomas Schamoni Peter Genée
Wim Wenders

Production:
Wim Wenders Produktion

Length:
100 min.

Format:
35mm Colour

Original Title:
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter

Original Language:
German

Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off during a game for
foul play. He spends the night with a cinema cashier.
In the morning, he strangles her.

Bloch drives to the country, to a former girlfriend's
place where he waits for the police to close in on him.

"Its technique of attaining the action through the images, makes "The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty" a milestone for young German cinema." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung