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Synopsis
Charlie Graf was born in 1951 in the post-war slums of Mannheim as illegitimate son of a German worker and an American GI. Excluded and discriminated because of the colour of his skin he began to box with success and then he drifted into criminality and found himself more than 10 years of his life in prison, where he met ex-RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock. The two men, as different as they were, became friends: Boock taught Graf to read literature and fight rather with words than with his fists. In the end Graf reconsidered his life, persuaded the authorities to let him leave prison to fight professionally again – and in 1985 he became German champion. Tragically he lost his championship title under controversial circumstances, a decision unanimously considered wrong nowadays. After more than 20 years, he will be given just at last, in a really unexpected way… Among the witnesses of that time, Angelo Dundee, the legendary Muhammad Ali’s coach, the former terrorist Boock and, of course, Graf himself, as well as other great personalities of International boxing.