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L'ultima estate di Berlino: Berlino, estate 1936, le Olimpiadi sono alle porte: tutto Ã¨ pronto per lasciare il mondo a bocca aperta davanti alla potenza del Reich. Ai vertici della complessa e ambiziosa organizzazione dell'evento c'Ã¨ un soldato: Wolfgang FÃ¼rstner. Ma quando un giornale denuncia le sue origini ebraiche, FÃ¼rstner viene immediatamente destituito dall'incarico. Solo l'intervento di un ex commilitone gli permette di restare al Villaggio Olimpico, con un ruolo di secondo piano. A Berlino le telecamere volute dal FÃ¼hrer e Riefenstahl portano le Olimpiadi per la prima volta sul piccolo schermo. E mentre Jesse Owens entra nella storia con le sue quattro medaglie d'oro, FÃ¼rstner si aggira come uno spettro in una cittÃ vestita a festa. Berlin, summer 1936. The Olympics are upon us. Goebbels was right initial resistance to Hitler and Hitlerjugend and everything is ready to leave the world speechless in front of the power and Majesty of the Reich. At the top of the complex and ambitious organizing the event there is a man, indeed a soldier: Wolfgang F??rstner. A few weeks after the opening ceremony, though, a newspaper denouncing his Jewish origins and the immediate consequence is the dismissal from Office. By deus ex machina with full powers, F??rstner finds himself in a corner: is respected by veterans who served with him in the first world war but now has to suffer the humiliation of young talent Nazis and only the intervention of a former comrade-in-arms allows him to stay at the Olympic village, albeit with a secondary role. In Berlin flock journalists from all over the world and strongly desired by the F??hrer and cameras from Leni Riefenstahl carry the Olympics for the first time on the small screen. And while Jesse Owens makes history with four gold medals, Korean marathoner Son Kitei is forced to win for Japan and Austria-Peru dispute, that Eduardo Galeano will define "the most exciting football game of all time", F??rstner you hovering like a Specter in a city dressed to the nines. No longer recognizes the country he loves, nor the woman he married, and maybe even himself.