Manuele Deho studied Slavic Philology and Art History in Munich and St. Petersburg. After obtaining his Master’s Degree in 2000 he started working as director and editor for German and international TV Channels specializing in social documentaries: Why Did You Leave? Living withSsuicide (2006), a documentary series Behind Bars in Austria (2012), What Really Happened at Lake Starnberg? (2016). He has a daughter and lives in Munich. Football-mad is his first feature length documentary.
Football-mad
The goalkeeper: schizophrenic, the forward: psychotic, the defender: depressive. Stefan’s football team is in crisis. Some Saturdays only Denis makes it to the training. Which means none of the other fourteen players have overcome the paralysing effect of their medication or their illness. Bad timing. Stefan has just invited fifteen teams from all over Europe [...]