MY WAY TO OLYMPIA
synopsis
The story of someone who set out to overcome their fear of sport – and especially of those who pursue it. Niko von Glasow, ‘Germany’s one and only short-armed director’, travels around the world to meet athletes preparing for the 2012 Paralympics: one-armed table tennis player Aida Husic Dahlen from Norway; boccia champion Greg Polychronidis from Greece who is paralysed from the neck down; short-armed archer Matt Stutzman from the USA; one-legged swimmer Christiane Reppe from Germany and Rwanda’s sitting volleyball team. Eager to learn, the director takes an upbeat and self-critical look at what pushes these athletes to their physical and mental limits and discovers how sport has given them the courage to face life.
international title: | My Way to Olympia |
original title: | Mein Weg nach Olympia |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | If... Productions |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Niko von Glasow |
film run: | 85' |
release date: | DE 17/10/2013 |
screenplay: | Niko von Glasow |
cinematography by: | Hajo Schomerus |
film editing: | Mechthild Barth, Bernhard Reddig |
producer: | Ingo Fliess |
co-producer: | Niko von Glasow, Florian Caspar Seibel, Helge Sasse |
production: | if... Productions, Palladio Film GmbH & CO KG, Senator Film Produktion, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, NDR - Norddeutscher Rundfunk, SWR – Südwestrundfunk |
distributor: | Senator Filmverleih |