Herbstgold . Autumn Gold
Coproduction: Austria, Germany. Verzio FF. Five senior athletes prove that being 80, 95, or even 100 years old is just a minor inconvenience when becoming a world champion is at stake. A stunning film about human dignity and the power to live. This film offers a sensitive, formally elegant, and chee...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Czech English Italian Swedish German |
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Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Köln GmbH
2010
Austria |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:fc1a835e-14d4-4479-b3d5-02bbb70e8bc6 |
| Summary: | Coproduction: Austria, Germany. Verzio FF.
Five senior athletes prove that being 80, 95, or even 100 years old is just a minor inconvenience when becoming a world champion is at stake. A stunning film about human dignity and the power to live. This film offers a sensitive, formally elegant, and cheerful portrait of five athletes competing at the 18th international senior citizen World Masters Championships in the Finnish city of Lahti. The makers of this documentary convincingly show us how well one can preserve a healthy spirit, a vigorous mind and admirable levels of fitness in an aging body. The protagonists include the Viennese centenarian Alfred Proksche, who paints female nudes in his spare time, the 94-year-old Italian discus thrower Gabre Gabric-Calvesi, 93-year-old Herbert Liedtke, a ferocious sprinter from Stockholm, and Jiří Soukup, an 82-year-old high-jumper from Hradec Králové. For them, preparing for the championships, like the individual competitions themselves, is primarily a race against time. Despite this, they hope that their performances next year will be a little bit better. |
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| Published: | 2010 |