Over the Limit
Poland, Germany, Finland2017documentary74'
Margarita Mamun is a 20-year old Russian gymnast. Preparing for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she works with two trainers who represent different approaches to a sports success and enter into different relationships with the protagonist. The film is an emotional story about the psychological price you need to pay for success in professional sports. Striving for championship is linked with brutal character formation. ARTE invites for the screening.
- directed by
- Marta Prus
Director and screenwriter. She was born in 1987 in Warsaw. She is a graduate of Film Directing at the Film School in Łódź and the documentary course at the Wajda School. Her films include "Vakha and Magomed" (2010), "Eighteen Birthday" (2012), "Talk to Me" (2015) and "Hot and Cold" (2016). In collaboration with Telemark, she has made the series "Teen Mom Poland". She is a laureate of the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding artistic achievement and the Wiesław Nowicki Prize for the most promising young filmmaker.
- cinematography
- Adam Suzin
- script
- Marta Prus
- music
- Mikołaj Stroiński
- sound
- Maciej Pawłowski
- editing
- Maciej Pawliński
- production
- Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kępińska (Telemark)
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