West Wind
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
Formula Kino Horizont
Dates:
15–19 October 2014
Partners:
European Film Promotion
CoolConnections
Игра по правилам
Fair Play
Countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Year: 2014
Director: Andrea Sedlácková
Cast: Vlastina Svátková, Berenika Kohoutová, Anna Geislerová
Genres: drama, history
Language: Czech, Slovenian, German
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Возраст: +
The 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The young talented sprinter Anna is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As a part of the preparation she is placed in a secret "medical programme" where she's getting doped with anabolic steroids. Her performance is getting better, but after she collapses at the training, she learns the truth about the drugs. Anna decides to continue in her training without the steroids even though her mother is worried that she won't be able to keep up with other athletes and might not qualify for the Olympics, which she sees as the only chance for her daughter to escape from behind the Iron Curtain. After Anna finishes the last in the indoor race, her mother informs the coach that Anna is no longer using steroids. They decide to apply the steroids to Anna secretly, pretending it's nothing but doses of harmless vitamins.
Awards and festivals:
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - participation
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Schedule:
19 October, Sunday