[영화 대본]‘Boom! Boom!:The World vs. Boris Becker(팡!팡!:세계 대 ‘보얼.이스 ‘베크.어, 2023

[BRUCE]

[Becker] Barbara calls me.

"We have to sort this.

I don't want to go to court tomorrow."

I said-- [sighs] I was playing my card.

I said, "Well, I-I mean, again,

you're right to do what you do.

I fucked up.

But now, six months later, uh, uh, uh,

you get-- you get--

it gets nasty with the lawyers

and you do court

and everything, not right.

Ask me what you want,

I can give it to you."

We negotiated.

We made an agreement

that we don't speak about numbers,

but believe me, she's a wealthy woman.

[interviewer] Between divorce settlements

and child support,

Becker's expenses were mounting up.

Then he was convicted of tax fraud,

and on the hook for huge fines.

It was a tough losing streak,

one that Boris tried to handle with grace.

After all, he and Barbara

may have learned the lesson

of the Kipling quote at the players' door

to Wimbledon's center court,

"Triumph and disaster are both impostors,

and should be treated just the same."

Hmm.

[Barbara speaking indistinctly]

[player] You're crushing me on television.

- [scoffs]

- [Barbara speaking indistinctly]

[laughs]

Intense.

[Barbara]

You can't have your cake and eat it.

That I have this beautiful family,

that I have my kids, that I have this life

has to do with the pain also

that I had to endure.

So I also look at this as not only

a learning experience,

but something that had to happen

for me to be here,

for you to talk to me, for me to be here,

you know, to have these kids.

So I see it as a full thing,

and this is how

I see my relationship with Boris,

with a lot of gratitude

of what was and what is,

and, um, with love, you know?

I only have to talk about it

when you come.

- [laughs]

- [interviewer laughs]

[Becker] It's called life.

You have to move on.

As long as you-- you make sure

that the kids are fine,

I think, you know, we as adults,

we have to move on, and--

My difficult part was then, um,

how do I deal with my daughter?

[babbling]

So I said, um, "Angela, I think it's time

for Anna to meet her brothers."

I have a finca in Mallorca.

I made a, you know, big family holiday

where I had Anna and Angela

together now in the house

with my mother, with my sister,

with-- with the boys.

I mean, it was unbelievable.

If you would have told me that

when that first story happened,

he said that it's an impossibility.

Regardless of what the world says,

the media says,

this is a normal family situation.

I was dividing my time, uh,

between Miami Beach

and Switzerland in Zurich,

and Miami Beach.

I took Noah for a pizza

to the local Italian.

This woman walks to the bar.

And she was just the most beautiful woman

I've seen in my life.

One of Lilly's biggest qualities

was always to, uh,

cater and adapt and handle my kids,

including my daughter.

Those are the most important things

in my life, and if they like you,

then-- then you already won me over,

because they are-- they are, um...

they are so important.

I told her, "Listen,

I think we should get married.

I want you to, you know, move to Europe,"

and she said,

um, "Yeah. Yeah. I love you.

Let's get married."

[in German]

Welcome to our "Exclusiv Spezial,"

Boris's dream wedding in St. Moritz.

[reporter] The rehearsal--

first item on the agenda after

the couple landed in the

posh Swiss town of St. Moritz

by private jet on Thursday afternoon.

Somehow everyone seems to be

in a state of excitement about it all.

[speaking German]

[reporter] "Here comes the bride."

In front of the car, hotel employees

and security forces strive to

protect the bride from

the all-too-curious eyes of photographers.

[guard 1 in English]

Back, back, back, back, back.

[guard 2] Okay. Let's go.

[bell tolling]

[in English] "I, Boris,

take you, Sharlely, to be my wife."

"To have and to hold

from this day forward..."

"To have and hold from this day forward..."

"For better and for worse..."

[minister] "For richer or for poorer..."

"For richer or poorer..."

["The Air That I Breathe" playing]

[grunts]

[grunts]

[reporter] What a doubles pair

these two would make.

The six-time Grand Slam champion

Boris Becker has joined

the coaching team of

the world number two, Novak Djokovic.

Djokovic called Becker "a true legend."

[crew member] Take some time

to adjust if necessary.

[interviewer]

Yeah, let's just take a quick look.

[crew member] We're recording.

[interviewer]

Let's begin at the beginning.

- Why did you reach out to Boris?

- [inhales sharply]

- Mental strength. [laughs]

- [interviewer laughs]

That's how I would describe, uh, Boris.

[Becker] We spoke.

And I said, "Well, I'm too old

to bullshit you, you know?

I've followed you and your career,

and you always come across

as a street fighter."

[applause]

"And once you're in a final

with whoever, you gave it away.

You bag it in, you tank. Why?"

He said, "Yeah, I'm frustrated.

I-- I can't--"

Then I said, "Well, there's a reason.

We need to speak about it."

[crowd murmurs]

[Becker] "So you have to believe

in what I'm telling you,

and this is my opinion

about your forehand and your serve

and the backhand and the attitude,

and you're too rushed

and everything that I've heard."

Six hours later, he-- he said,

um, "You wanna coach me?"

[grunts]

[McEnroe] Truthfully,

I think Boris did a great job with Novak,

but, you know, in some ways,

you could be like,

- "Here. Go out on the court."

- [interviewer laughs]

"Good. Play well."

I mean, that's Novak Djokovic

you're talking about.

It turned out he's pretty good, right?

I'm sure there were some tactical things.

It's not like Boris doesn't know the game,

but this was more about, you know,

what goes on here.

When you go onto the court

against Rafa Nadal,

it's not about how many forehands

do you hit, how many winners do you hit.

It's-- You gotta get good starts in sets.

And you get good starts in sets

by not letting your head drop at all.

Like you believe

it's just a matter of time

before I'm gonna take the lead

in this match,

and I thought with Boris,

he grew as a person.

[Becker] It gets personal.

You know, "You want--

You want your mother to cry

or you want his mother to cry?

You're a proud Serbian.

You're a proud family man.

You would do anything

to protect the family.

That's how you have to play.

That's the attitude.

Because Rafael wants to do the same,

Roger wants to do the same,

and Andy want to do the same.

They want to protect their families.

Oh, now go out and do it."

Then we still had to overcome

a couple of inner demons

that I can't talk about.

Why he faltered on the last hurdle.

[interviewer] What Boris discovered

was that Novak was so haunted

by something he had done off the court,

that he was subconsciously

punishing himself on the court

by losing in the final rounds.

Boris told Novak that unless he reckoned

with those inner demons, he wouldn't win.

We did talk about

all the off-court activities

that could be favorable

and-- and also the other ones

that they are actually a distraction.

He asked me, "Okay,

so what do you want from tennis?

Do you have clarity of your goal?"

So I said, "Yeah, of course.

I want to write the history of the sport,

and, um, and I want to do it with you."

So, you know, we clicked right away.

[grunts]

[Becker] The whole reason

for making this relationship work

is winning.

And-- And I'm not satisfied

until you hold up this trophy.

[crowd gasping, cheering]

[commentator 1 groans]

That's unbelievable.

[commentator 2] Isn't that?

[Djokovic]

That match was a roller coaster.

Roger on grass, he always

requires you to come out

as your best self in order

to have a chance to win.

[crowd gasps]

- [crowd cheering]

- [commentator 1 chuckles]

[commentator 2]

Game's changed a bit, hasn't it?

So a little tennis lesson

for free now for you.

Roger Federer changed his game.

He's standing there on the baseline.

He takes the ball much earlier.

He plays attacking on the returns,

surprising everybody

because he has the technique to do so.

It has to become second nature.

It has to become an instinct.

[crowd gasping, cheering]

[Becker] Novak has the ability to hit

the ball very quickly as a half volley.

Because he had to adapt to Roger.

[crowd gasping, cheering]

[Djokovic] It's a battle. It's a fight.

Unpredictable things happen.

Somebody takes you

out of your comfort zone, right?

[Djokovic] Come on!

[commentator 3] Djokovic is cross.

Novak is very emotional.

He always gets temperamental

when the crowd supports the other guy.

And he's using that to show

with the fingers, often to the crowd,

"You have woken me up now.

I'm gonna beat this guy."

But sometimes it backfires.

[crowd cheers]

He gets frustrated

and is losing his temper,

and his mind stops, and he loses.

The magic word is called balance.

[crowd shouts, cheers]

You know, having him there,

he was just so serene.

He was just so strong,

and he stood his ground.

He knows exactly what I'm going through.

"Okay, I'm back here again

where I need to be

and focused on the next point."

[crowd cheering]

Throughout the match,

there was a lot of oscillations, right?

[crowd cheering]

In those most important moments,

having Boris there just gave me that fuel

and that extra inch

to overcome the challenge.

[crowd gasping, cheering]

[crowd gasping]

[crowd cheering]

- [commentator 2] Oh, amazing.

- [crowd gasping, cheering]

- [groans]

- [crowd cheering]

[commentator 1]

It's Djokovic who claims this classic.

[announcer] 6-7, 6-4, 7-6...

[commentator 1] 6-4 in the fifth.

They hug, and so surely will these two.

Wonderful, wonderful final.

And he walks through the gate

to embrace friends and loved ones.

Well done, Boris.

[Djokovic] '14 was in a way,

a springboard, you know?

The big opening, you know.

That was a huge wind in the sails

that allowed us to really have

an incredible run

in the next two and a half years.

[crowd cheering]

[interviewer] Djokovic went on

to win the next two ATP Finals

and five of the next seven

Grand Slams, including the French Open.

But by the summer of 2016,

the relentless focus and pressure

began to take its toll.

[Djokovic] If you want to be a champion,

it's all on you.

I was going through a period,

um, where I was

really looking for myself somehow,

you know, off the court.

I could see a drop in intensity,

a drop in motivation.

Natural. I mean,

how much more you want to win.

[Djokovic] Played Wimbledon, third round.

There was a couple of rain interruptions

and I found myself in a room.

And I just-- I sat there,

and I told my team, "Can--" you know,

"Can everyone leave me?

I just want to be by myself."

And I just looked at the wall

and I was like-- just-- I was dull.

Literally no drive inside of me.

And then I knew that--

that he wants to tell me something.

He said,

"Listen, boss, I'm-- I'm a little tired.

You know, I don't want to play

the way I used to."

"Well, listen. First of all, I love you.

And I respect you.

And we've done something together

that's been an unbelievable journey

for me, Boris Becker.

I learned something about me

and about tennis

and maybe a bit about you.

Um... uh, uh, I'm not good at losing.

And if you want to go to Shanghai

or want to go to Paris

and you're happy to be there,

I'm the wrong guy for you.

I think we'd better stop."

[people chattering]

[Djokovic] Even after that,

we kept the relation going.

Like, we never stopped.

Because, you know, he was always there.

He's still there.

Boris is family to me, you know.

- [both] Shatzi!

- [speaks German]

Super.

- How are you?

- Good.

- It's good to see you.

- Let's go. Let's go, yeah?

- Here we go.

- Let's go, huh?

Here we go.

I like it. I like it.

- Now is important.

- Now...

- [laughing]

- Huh?

- Good. Good.

- Very good.

[in English] Yeah. [in German] I like it.

Everything's good, yeah. I'm fine.

But now you're a little...

a little more...

[in English] ...focus, huh?

- [in German] You know that.

- [in English] Good. Good. That's good.

- Hmm?

- [person speaks German]

- [chattering]

- [person in English] Okay.

[Becker] I want to learn something

from the master.

[laughs]

[Becker] How to return, how to move.

- [Djokovic] I'll try to come to the net.

- [Becker laughs]

[crowd chatters]

[interviewer] If you think about it,

tennis is a binary game

measured in hits and misses,

ones and zeros.

[chattering]

On the court, Boris knew

how to play with the numbers.

Off the court, he never seemed to know

how to make sense of them.

[tennis ball echoing]

[interviewer] I mean,

maybe the best way to start

is for you to explain.

'Cause I think--

I-I certainly don't understand it

and I think a lot of people

don't understand it.

How were you thrown

into bankruptcy in the first place?

[inhales sharply]

Um, good question.

Uh, uh, very few people

have actually asked me that.

I'm trying to, you know, explain it,

uh, uh, as best as I can.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you so much. God bless.

Awesome.

[Becker] A lot of athletes,

we believe that the amount of money

we earn during our careers

will continue to come in after.

So we don't adapt our lifestyles

quick enough.

You keep on spending money

that you don't make anymore.

You spend that money that you made before.

So, yeah, I'm blaming me.

[fans chattering]

- Thank you.

- Thank you, Boris.

- Boris.

- Thank you.

[young fan] Boris!

[Tiriac] I told him, I say,

"Boris, put the money in the bank

and be happy with two percent,

three percent, five percent.

You cannot spend it."

"No, no, no, no, no. I know investments."

I said, "Good. You want to play Monopoly?

Take five percent of all you have,

and that's millions and millions,

take it out and play with them.

And when you lose them all,

say, 'I learned a lesson.'

I learned a lesson."

But, uh, the child with a flame, huh?

And more important, the people around him...

taking advantage.

[interviewer] It's not hard to see

why a star like Boris

attracts people

who might take advantage of him.

He's charming, perhaps a bit naive.

He's bright and charismatic

and super famous,

the kind of guy

you always have a good time with.

He lives the way he played tennis--

charging the net, taking risks,

going for broke.

And for many years,

his business arrangements

with Hans-Dieter Cleven

allowed him to live like a rock star.

Cleven played the role of the producer,

picking up the tabs,

doing deals on napkins,

and taking care of the books.

Cleven always made sure

that Boris had enough cash to live large.

In return, Cleven got up to half

the upside from marketing Boris

and was able to share

the star's spotlight.

He attended Boris's wedding to Lilly

and threw them an Oktoberfest party

complete with dirndls and lederhosen.

Boris and Lilly

hung out with billionaires,

like John Caudwell, a Brit who founded

and sold a cell phone empire.

And they spent more and more time

in Mallorca,

expanding their finca,

a ten-bedroom mansion

on a 53-acre estate.

[pop music playing]

[announcer, in German]

Yes, Boris Becker, the tennis god

of yesteryear is now also in television.

Welcome to my finca in Mallorca.

Welcome to Boris Becker TV.

This is the entrance hall.

Up here on the right is the bedchamber.

And of course no cameras in there,

that is clear!

Let's go straight to the living room.

Maybe you'll see a fireplace.

We hired six Moroccans and worked

for half a year and cut out

all the individuals parts here.

I need sports to live.

And at my age,

jogging doesn't go so well anymore.

That's why I have to swim more.

And I can let off steam a bit here.

[in English] That house in Spain was

great, but I was living in Switzerland.

In 2012, Lilly said, "Do you mind, Boris,

moving to Wimbledon?" I said, "What?"

If there is one village

in-in the world that I love

and call home, it's Wimbledon.

They call me

the most popular German in Britain.

And my response to that is,

I don't think the list is very long.

I really feel at home.

Lived in London ever since.

[pedestrian] Hello, Boris.

Good to see you, sir.

[interviewer] Boris tells the story

as if he and Lilly had settled down

to a life of tea and crumpets.

But all that jet-setting was expensive,

and financially,

he still hadn't learned to keep score.

When Lilly wanted to leave Switzerland,

Boris split up with Cleven.

But that business divorce left him

with a Swiss tax bill of 3 million euros,

something he couldn't pay.

Since Cleven was gone,

Boris turned for help

to British bankers at Arbuthnot Latham

who offered a solution.

Boris could borrow 4.6 million euros,

secured against his future earnings

as a brand ambassador and TV personality.

Boris Becker!

[interviewer] Surely, one way or another,

England's favorite German

could make good on the loan.

The problem occurred that

after about a year into the loan,

I couldn't pay back

what I was supposed to pay back

because some of my contracts

have fallen away.

Scheisse.

If I-- I would have been an asshole,

I could have said,

"You made the contract. Bad luck."

But I wasn't an asshole. I said,

"I have a finca in Spain

that's valued at ten million euros.

So you have security of the finca,

and I have time to pay you back

from my future earnings."

But then we found out there was, um,

a charge on that finca

from a bridge loan

that I got from John Caudwell.

- John.

- Hi there. How you doing?

- Nice to see you. [laughs]

- Good to see you.

Thanks for your time.

You don't get this stuff

at IKEA, do you, John?

[both laughing]

[Becker] That loan,

because it was a bridge loan,

had 25% interest on it.

Why so high? Because, "A,"

I needed quickly that money,

and "B," I was gonna sell the finca

in the next three months.

[interviewer] Okay, you're going

to sell your house,

but you need money to fix it up.

So you take out a short-term,

high-interest loan.

But in the case of the finca,

the situation was a bit more desperate

than Boris had led on.

Boris owed contractors over 500,000 euros,

and he had many other debts and expenses

that needed his attention.

Would the loan be enough

to cover everything?

[interviewer] Why did you take out

that bridge loan, the 1.2 million?

I can't tell you

all the payments that are done,

but it was not done

for my personal benefits.

I had bills to pay.

My lifestyle was probably

still too expensive.

I had an ex-wife to pay.

I had four children.

It was not done for my personal benefit,

but to pay expensive bills.

[interviewer]

Boris never did fix up the finca.

And when word spread that nobody was home,

uninvited guests moved in.

Twenty-five years

And my life, I'm still 

I'm trying to get up

All this great big hill of hope 

For a destination 

[in German]

Does someone want to go for a walk?

Come on.

[cameraperson] A goal achieved?

[laughs]

For sure.

- [cameraperson] Oh.

- There, allegedly, Moroccans have come.

And they have done everything by hand.

[cameraperson laughs]

[speaking indistinctly]

Boris Becker's basketball court.

[cameraperson 2] Tennis court.

Oh, yeah, tennis court. [laughs]

The real racket.

With this, Boris Becker won

Wimbledon, '85, '86 too, '87 too.

["Divine Intervention" playing]

[dog barking]

There is still something left

of the birthday cake.

[exhaling deeply]

[cameraperson]

We are just sitting in the Jacuzzi...

in a Jacuzzi that Boris Becker has used.

That's the thing in the media right now.

But if you live like that

and let it go like that?

[horse neighing]

[in English] Talking about,

you know, once a very rich man.

I mean, even at the time of my bankruptcy,

believe it or not,

I was still a millionaire.

Then it was too late.

I-I had to pay taxes here,

child alimony there,

uh, financial-- you name it.

So I was just in a-- in a-- in a treadmill

trying to make enough money

to keep the boat afloat.

But the hole was already dug.

[interviewer] And the shovels

were getting more and more expensive.

At 25%, Boris's debt skyrocketed,

leaving him unable to pay.

So his British bank

successfully petitioned a court in London

to throw him into bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy was tough on Boris.

These two here are Renshaw Cups,

which are replicas of the original.

Undated, but... [continues indistinctly]

[interviewer] By law, the court appointed

a private lawyer named Mark Ford

to collect half of Boris's income

and to liquidate Boris's most precious

assets to pay off his creditors.

It's the nature of a bankruptcy

that your assets,

or certainly surplus assets

become available to your creditors.

The process is those assets vest

in the trustee in bankruptcy,

and then it falls on them

to retain specialists

in order to sell them.

[Becker] As a player,

and it doesn't sound good,

but a trophy itself means very little.

What, you're gonna look

at trophies at 17 and 18?

How boring is that?

They mean only something

when you're older.

I like to show my trophies to my kids now.

I really do.

What can I do?

[interviewer] Suddenly, out of the blue,

a lifeline appeared

from a very unlikely source--

the Central African Republic.

The CAR was offering Boris

an important position

that might change everything.

He was invited to be a special attach

for sports,

humanitarian and cultural affairs.

Boris owed his good fortune

to Stephan Welk,

who arranged for Becker's special

diplomatic passport.

Welk was a self-described

expert in diplomacy.

[Becker] Stephan,

I've never met the man before, said

the president and the ambassador

respect your international standing.

You know, "You do have

a mixed-race family,

so you understand some of the issues

better than most white people.

And they're considering giving you, um,

a seat at the Security Council

in New York."

I said, "Oof, that sounds serious."

Stephan said that we could use

the immunity status

to stop the bankruptcy proceedings.

And I said, "Hold on.

That's two different issues.

One has nothing to do with the other."

But you yourself have said,

"I have now asserted diplomatic immunity,

as I am in fact bound to do

in order to bring this farce to an end."

So you yourself have connected

the two things.

That's correct,

but one has nothing to do from the other.

[interviewer] I was confused.

On the one hand,

Boris's lawyers publicly stated

that his status as an ambassador

gave him immunity from bankruptcy.

Boris said that was true

but also not true.

One had nothing to do with the other.

[speaking German]

[interviewer] I wondered,

what was the point of view

in the Central African Republic?

If you want to find Boris Becker

in the Central African Republic,

where better to start

than the local tennis club?

Monsieur? Monsieur?

Where's Boris Becker? Where Boris Becker?

- The ambassador?

- [host] Yes.

- Right, the goodwill ambassador.

- [host] Yeah.

Right, right, right, right.

So he's not at the local tennis club.

How about a party full of diplomats?

It's a diplomatic hall. What do they think

about Boris being a diplomat?

- Well, you know the rumors around--

- They laugh!

Really? [laughs]

I am German, yes, but I haven't met

any German yet in town.

This is somebody that a lot of people

know, people respect,

and all of a sudden you're hearing stuff

like that and reading stuff like that.

And you-- you actually

don't know what to think.

Do you have

a Central African Republic passport?

Yes, I have.

[host] This is thought to be

the document presented in court

by Mr. Becker's lawyers as proof

he couldn't be prosecuted.

So what does the man

whose signature's on it have to say?

[official] It's completely fake.

Is Mr. Boris Becker a subject

in the investigation you're carrying out?

Ah, yeah. He participate

to have this passport in the wrong way.

I have a real passport.

Uh, uh, it's at the--

at the embassy in Brussels,

uh, the last time I checked.

And I said, "God, why me? Why me again?"

I believed the foreign minister,

and therefore, you know, it's a hoax?

My acquaintance Stephan,

I told him the facts of life.

[interviewer]

Welk turned out to be a crook

who was arrested for fraud and forgery.

Boris's diplomatic passport

turned out to be part of a batch

that had been stolen.

The fake passports were sold

to drug dealers and fraudsters.

And one ended up in the hands

of the son of a Swiss millionaire

who had his Ferrari intentionally blown up

so he could pocket the insurance money.

[reporter] Uh, looking up, Lilly.

Lovely. Thanks, Boris.

[Becker scoffs]

It was an interesting time.

Soon after, my wife filed for divorce.

We're still not financially agreed.

Now, as anybody that knows me,

I'm-- I'm a generous guy

and I want her to do well.

When I'm back on my feet,

back, uh, free and everything,

we will sit down and we're

gonna find a solution.

[interviewer] On the tennis court,

that's so often what Boris did,

find a solution.

[crowd cheering]

And it seemed like he'd found a solution

to his financial and legal problems too.

The English bank accepted his finca

as repayment of his debt.

It seemed like Boris had won.

But then another opponent stepped forward,

his former partner, Hans-Dieter Cleven.

Hurt by the way Boris

had ended their relationship,

Cleven suddenly claimed that Boris

owed him over 40 million euros,

a claim Boris denied.

The two men battled twice in Swiss courts,

where Boris won both times.

But then, in a shock to Boris,

the English bankruptcy trustees

became convinced

that the debt to Cleven was real.

[Becker] The bankruptcy was gonna be over.

All of a sudden,

to the surprise from all of us,

the trustee accepted his claim

into the bankruptcy.

"A," why should I pay back any money

on what little grounds to that man?

And "B," I don't have it either.

Right? [laughs] So-- So what is my choice?

And hence,

I am-- I am now five years in bankruptcy

because of a claim that never was proved

anywhere in the world,

including Switzerland.

Do I understand this? No.

Is it happening? Yes.

[interviewer] It was hard to understand

the Cleven story.

Unless you thought of it

as a failed marriage,

beautiful at the beginning,

and messy at the end.

As part of their divorce,

Cleven brandished

what looked like a list of debts--

vague charges,

loan costs, private expenses.

All without receipts.

While the Swiss courts

dismissed the claims,

Becker had signed the document

as a favor, according to Boris,

to help Cleven with his tax deductions.

When I found the document, I was stunned.

What was Boris thinking?

Boris traveled to Zurich

for a final reckoning.

In a meeting room at the busy airport,

Boris and his lawyer tried

to hammer out a deal with Cleven.

After much haggling,

Cleven made an unusual offer.

Cleven would walk away

from millions of euros in claims

if Boris would just... come back to him.

That was not a price

Boris was willing to pay.

He returned to London.

London proved to be a legal trap.

The bankruptcy trustee

refused to let Boris

use his dwindling assets

to hire lawyers to sue Cleven.

Instead, the trustees sided with Cleven

and his claims against Becker.

Two months later,

a criminal prosecution began.

[prosecutor] Mr. Becker said,

"I didn't know" or, "I was badly advised"

or "My advisers told me not to do 'X'"

or "They told me to do 'Y.'"

- [interviewer] You didn't buy that?

- No, that's why we're here. [laughs]

The defense essentially

accepted the facts.

Moneys had been transferred.

Properties existed,

and he had said that they didn't.

It all really came down to what, um--

what Mr. Becker said

he did and didn't know.

I was saying he was dishonest,

and he was saying that he was honest.

[interviewer] In the court of law and even

in the court of public opinion,

the case became a question of character.

Was Boris just reckless and naive,

or an entitled athlete

who just didn't feel he needed

to play by the rules?

Make Boris Rich Again.

[in German] And that is the sum

that came from you.

You donated 541.11.

[applause]

Maybe we can give him the money there.

Boris!

We have another small gift for you.

By Oliver Pocher and his audience.

532.38 as a gift. For you!

Boris!

Could you give a little wave?

At least wave at the money!

Beginning today, Boris Becker will

have to answer in court in London.

[in English]

The trustee claims I'm not cooperative.

He thinks I'm hiding trophies,

I'm hiding this, I'm hiding that.

It gets to the criminal part of it.

Uh, and then they-- they go after you.

[interviewer] Paparazzi camped out

in front of the courthouse

to get a glimpse of Boris

and his girlfriend, Lilian,

as a lengthy trial ensued.

To the jury, the facts of the case,

hiding assets, or payments to ex-wives,

weren't as important as reckoning

with Becker's past, present and future.

Had he learned to tell the truth,

or was he still telling himself stories

about a 17-year-old who became a champion

too young for his own good?

Six-time Grand Slam winner Boris Becker

has been found guilty

of four charges, under the Insolvency Act,

relating to his 2017 bankruptcy.

The sentencing judge said,

"While I accept the humiliation you felt

as a result of these proceedings,

you've shown no humility."

[interviewer] Humility and humiliation,

I thought it was unfair somehow

for the judge to expect both.

It's like the way we

as fans expect our athletes

to be cruel on the court

and generous in the press conferences.

How does anyone,

even a child born at Wimbledon,

make sense of all that?

[Lilian Monteiro]

He was looking a lot at his past,

what he achieved, what he's done.

In order to be a champion,

you have to believe you are invincible,

you are untouchable,

you have to chase it until the end.

And you have to do probably anything

in order to win that point, or that game,

or that set, you know?

So that, in my opinion,

probably brings you to a level

where you think you are untouchable,

also in real life, but it's not like that.

[Becker] But I wanted to speak to you

because, you know,

I may not get the chance anymore.

I'm sentenced in two days.

I'm just praying every day

that the sentencing is lenient.

Uh, ideally, a suspended sentence.

Uh, any sentence, of course,

I would accept, I have no choice.

Uh, so, this is where we are.

It's Wednesday afternoon,

Friday, I know the rest of my life.

[interviewer]

How have you been making sense of this?

What have you been thinking about

over the past--

[inhales deeply, sighs]

[clicks tongue, snorts] It's tough.

It's tough. [sniffles]

[clicks tongue, exhales deeply]

Very hard.

It's hard.

[stammers]

[exhales deeply]

I've-I've hit my-my... [stammers]

...my-my bottom.

I don't-- I don't know what to make of it.

I face it, you know?

I-I'm not gonna hide,

or run away, or-- You know?

I accept whatever sentence I get.

Um, there's a reason for this.

There's a reason why this is happening.

Um, my life has always been

a little different than most other lives.

You know, my upbringing was different.

Winning Wimbledon at 17 was different.

[inhales deeply] The next 36,

seven years since then has been different.

Uh, um, uh--

[interviewer] Um, I mean,

I don't know what to say,

except to wish you the best of luck

on Friday.

- Yep. Thank you.

- [interviewer speaking indistinctly]

Friday, light a candle, will you?

[match striking]

[camera shutter clicks]

So that's the scene on Centre Court,

and I'm delighted to say, joining me here,

first day, John McEnroe.

- We gotta savor every last day here.

- [reporter laughing]

[crowd chattering]

[McEnroe] And I'm gonna

keep it very short but sweet.

Boris. We love you. I miss you, man.

[Becker] Now I'm 54 years old, now,

that's not the end yet.

There's gonna be another chapter.

[crowd applauding]

- [thuds]

- [tennis player grunts]

[staff chattering]

Good morning.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

- Good morning, yes. Thank you.

- [staff member] Have a good day, Boris.

- Thank you.

- Enjoy the rest of the day.

Thank you.

[people chattering]

[Monteiro]

You have to be vulnerable sometimes.

You have to admit your limits

and mistakes.

Maybe it's an opportunity

for him to close with his past,

that I think was haunting him for long,

long time.

This is just the end of a long journey

that started years ago.

[people chattering]

[Becker] My years.

It's all true what I'm saying, you know?

It really happened. It real-- [chuckles]

Always go left. Always go left.

[crowd applauding]

[in German] This is where it all started.

[chuckling]

[Tiriac, in English] Boris Becker

was born that day in London.

And then, from that day,

Germany adopted him.

[in German] It's nice here, right?

I mean, ultimately,

I know this sounds very poetic,

but this is where I was born.

That's why we are making this movie

and talk about Wimbledon

and the whole thing

because this is where it all started.

If I hadn't turned that match around

back then,

everything would've happened differently.

I was not mature enough at that point

for many things

that I was hit with afterwards.

Everything was very strict

and serious back then,

and that's why I said I would've

liked a few more years.

[Becker, in English]

You know, you can tell me,

"You could have had it easier.

You could have agreed to this, and, uh,

sugarcoated that..." [stammers]

...but that's not me.

Nobody told me to win Wimbledon at 17,

I just did it.

So this is part of my DNA,

and I'm proud of it.

This is who I am.

[laughing]

["Lawyers, Guns and Money" playing]