Anna, a talented young sprinter, is training for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Following official instructions, she takes anabolic steroids masked as prescribed vitamins to boost her performance. When she finds out she risks everything by refusing to continue, forcing her dissident mother, who sees the Olympics as Anna‘s escape route, to conspire against her... Highlighting the Eastern Bloc policy of doping athletes, Sedláčková provides a powerful account of how the Communist regime sought to control lives and the resulting moral dilemmas.
Part of Made in Prague Festival 2014.
Andrea Sedláčková, CZ / SK / DE 2014
100 min, English subtitles
With Judit Bárdos, Anna Geislerová, Eva Josefíková and Roman Luknár
Followed by a discussion on politics, sports and the arts with the film director Andrea Sedláčková and Pat Butcher, former athletics correspondent for the Financial Times and The Times.
Part of Made in Prague Festival, 17 October - 30 November 2014
Fair Play + Q&A with director Andrea Sedláčková and athletics correspondent Pat Butcher
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cinema 1, The Mall, London
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