It does not happen every day that a gigantic stadium is built on a greenfield: In October of 2001, the citizens of Munich have voted with a clear yes for a new soccer stadium in the north of the city. 66000 soccer fans of FC Bayern and 1860 Munich will find a new common home in the futuristic looking structure. But before that stand four years of work on a construction site of superlatives. The director Wolfgang Ettlich and his cameraman Hans-Albrecht Lusznat have followed the construction of the new Munich soccer arena since the first groundbreaking. They have recorded several phases of the construction and did thereby get to know the microcosmos of a large construction site from the inside: The logistics, with which hundreds of construction workers have to be coordinated, and the steady growth of the stadium all the way to the perfectly conceptualized illuminated structure, with VIP-boxes, mass restaurants, and Europe’s largest parking garage.
Wolfgang Ettlich
as Narrator
Peter Rozumnyi
as Oberpolier
Dipl.-Ing. Horst Maus
as Projektleiter
Michael Nell
as Chef der Eisenflechter
Ela Knebelsberger
as Kioskbesitzerin
Hans-Jörg Heindl
as Kranführer
Hans Ehrenschwender
as himself
Maria Ehrenschwender
as herself
