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Les Arbitres

Documentary

2009, Movie, 1h 17min

How can a few crucial minutes in a football match change the life of an entire family? How do the "men in black" feel when they are attacked by supporters? Kill the Referee unveils the lives of several professional football referees at the EURO 2008 championship; amongst them, the English referee Howard Webb, who provoked incredible controversy when he gave a penalty to Austria just before the end of the match with Poland, and the Italian Roberto Rosetti, who refereed the final.

Country: Belgium

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Reviews

Critic Simon Crook

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One for football fans and fans of bald men with flags.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...[gives] a quasi-telepathic access to the tense, internal world of a group of football refs during Euro 2008.

Read full review at The Guardian

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"Kill the Referee" takes viewers on a tense and thrilling journey into the lives of professional football referees during the EURO 2008 championship. Through the eyes of referees like Howard Webb and Roberto Rosetti, we experience the pressure, the criticism, and the death threats that come with making split-second decisions that can change the course of a game and the fate of a nation. Witness the high-stakes world of refereeing like never before, and discover the human side of the men in black.

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