Basically, this film is about as accurate as main character could pass for what Max actually looked like.
Its like they were going for Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian type, ... Max Schmeling simply did not look anything like that. If you are going to make a film where central focus is story of one man, least you can try to do is to have main character act, speak, walk, talk, look like actual person in question did. They utterly failed to do that here.
Second rather serious issue is that while now movie stars are treated as high society, in 1930's Germany, movie stars were seen as very low class, alongside all actors, entertainers, beggars (they were actually all called beggars because show itself would usually be free, and then after they would pass around a bucket, begging for donations). In this movie, Max's future wife, Anny Ondra, is treated like she is Marilyn Monroe. That is very far removed from what her life was in reality. Her association with Max is what actually gave her career and popularity a HUGE boost.
Film also nearly entirely avoids things like Max refusing to join Nazi Party, Max having mostly non-Germans and Jews as friends, ... he was unique sort of individual, type who probably would not have survived those times in Germany were he not seen as "SuperMan", and promoted as friend of Hitler and other higher ups of Nazi Party by media.
Really, if you are going to choose to make a historical film, about individual who should be portrayed accurately, it is really inexcusable. And film should have included far more clear explanation of how Max went from literally losing everything when war ended, to quickly making back MILLIONS inside of mere TWO YEARS, buying Coca Cola Franchise with that money and salvaging and rebuilding his image from false portrayal of him as a 'Nazi" to one closer to the truth. Man deserves better than this sad excuse for a film.
Its like they were going for Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian type, ... Max Schmeling simply did not look anything like that. If you are going to make a film where central focus is story of one man, least you can try to do is to have main character act, speak, walk, talk, look like actual person in question did. They utterly failed to do that here.
Second rather serious issue is that while now movie stars are treated as high society, in 1930's Germany, movie stars were seen as very low class, alongside all actors, entertainers, beggars (they were actually all called beggars because show itself would usually be free, and then after they would pass around a bucket, begging for donations). In this movie, Max's future wife, Anny Ondra, is treated like she is Marilyn Monroe. That is very far removed from what her life was in reality. Her association with Max is what actually gave her career and popularity a HUGE boost.
Film also nearly entirely avoids things like Max refusing to join Nazi Party, Max having mostly non-Germans and Jews as friends, ... he was unique sort of individual, type who probably would not have survived those times in Germany were he not seen as "SuperMan", and promoted as friend of Hitler and other higher ups of Nazi Party by media.
Really, if you are going to choose to make a historical film, about individual who should be portrayed accurately, it is really inexcusable. And film should have included far more clear explanation of how Max went from literally losing everything when war ended, to quickly making back MILLIONS inside of mere TWO YEARS, buying Coca Cola Franchise with that money and salvaging and rebuilding his image from false portrayal of him as a 'Nazi" to one closer to the truth. Man deserves better than this sad excuse for a film.