Danny Huston, who played a rough-around-the-edges Richard the Lionhearted in Ridley Scott's Cannes opener "Robin Hood," will star in "
Playoff," a sports drama from Israeli director Eran Riklis ("Lemon Tree") based on the real-life story of Israeli basketball coach Ralph Klein.
Huston plays Max Stoller, a Holocaust survivor who, after coaching Tel Aviv to victory in the European basketball championships, gets a call to train the German national team. Despite public outrage in Israel, he agrees and arrives in Frankfurt where he is confronted by the memories of his childhood.