Getting in the mood for the European Football Championship

"Football mania is a disease, but rare, thank God! / I know someone who suffered acutely / from soccer mania and soccer rage," rhymed Joachim Ringelnatz 101 years ago. The strong feelings that soccer in particular triggers in many people and which the poet mistakenly considered to be an illness and quite rightly an affliction can be experienced when playing, but also when watching, in the stadium and in front of the screen. The feelings are particularly intense at major tournaments: happiness and sorrow are then closely intertwined. Before the opening of the European Men's Football Championship, we invite you to three film programs that shed light on soccer and its social significance. What becomes of legends as time moves on? How is sport instrumentalized for political purposes? What to do when everyone is talking about soccer but you feel like doing something completely different?