Boris Becker not happy with RTL feature film - "One or two things happened differently"
At the end of the day it will be up to Boris Becker himself if he wants to see a truthful retelling of his most successful years. In any case, Becker had little fun with the RTL feature film “Der Rebell”.
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Dec 21, 2021, 05:14 pm
Even younger tennis fans will remember: when the 2017 feature film Borg / McEnroe, which processed the two Wimbledon weeks of 1980 as a core theme, Grandmaster John McEnroe was not happy with the result. Nobody had spoken to him, the American said at the time. Some of the dramatic representations are wrong. Björn Borg, the great silent man, was probably a little more privy to this. Especially since son Leo gives the young Borg.
“Der Rebell” didn't make it onto the big screen, but it did make it onto RTL's main evening program last Saturday evening. The feature film accompanies Boris Becker in his younger years up to his separation from coach Günther Bosch. And it has clear historical flaws, as the three-time Wimbledon champion explained in the Eurosport podcast "The Yellow of the Ball".
Tiriac the strong man in the Becker team
"What can I say? A lot of things just didn't happen the way they were shown, ”said Becker, who succeeded in the 1985 final on Church Road against Kevin Curren, a year later against Ivan Lendl and finally in 1989 against Stefan Edberg. “And that's a shame. I often met with the guys from RTL and we talked about how we could maybe organize this together. But at the end of the day my help was not called upon. "
“I was the one who lived it. I wasn't just the actor, I really was the tennis player and I have to say that one or two things happened differently, "Becker continued. The" Red Baron "was particularly disturbed by the portrayal of the player-coach relationship." I have great respect for Günther Bosch, and he was certainly very helpful, but the strong man on my team was Ion Tiriac and not Günther Bosch. You just don't like to hear that in Germany, but it's the truth. "
Will you have your own documentary?
And further: “It's a bit annoying - so at some point I'll come with my own documentary and then I'll really say what happened. Whether someone wants to hear it or not, I leave that out. " A total of 1.95 million people wanted to see the TV feature film on Saturday evening. This corresponds to a market share of 6.9 percent.