Being Franziska van Almsick

A three-part portrait of the world champion, world record holder, and world-class athlete who became a teen idol and a well-known advertising face in both East and West Germany. But Franzi was also the fallible one—glorified and abandoned by the tabloids. Jürgen Schmidt and Laura Trust tell the moving story of Franziska van Almsick, the first superstar of reunified Germany.