Max and the Senior Squad

Max and the Senior Squad follows Max, a ten-year-old boy who struggles with bullying in his new school class. He finds an unlikely support system in Vera, Horst, and Kilian, a group of elderly residents at a retirement home. When a former professional soccer coach among the seniors challenges an ambitious gym teacher to a match, Max joins the elderly team to face off against his school peers. Alongside this sporting rivalry, the group investigates mysterious supernatural occurrences involving a ghost at a castle.

The film was directed and written by Winfried Oelsner, who previously directed Tsunami in 2005. The cast features Lucas Herzog as Max Bergmann, along with Uschi Glas, Günther Maria Halmer, Thomas Thieme, and Caroline Junghanns. Produced in Germany by companies including Neopol Film and Neue Bioskop Film, this family comedy and crime story has a runtime of 94 minutes. It was released on May 1, 2024.