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The Athlete

ORIGINAL TITLE

Atletu (The Athlete)

YEAR

2009

RUNNING TIME

85 min.

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COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew

SCREENWRITER

Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew, Mikael Aemiro Awake

COMPOSER

Christian Meyer

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Toby Moore, Philip C. Pfeiffer, Radoslav Spassov, Rodney Taylor

CAST

Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas, Abba Waka Dessalegn

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production Ethiopia-USA-Germany; AV Patchbay / El Atleta / Instinctive Film

GENRE

Drama | Biography. Sports. Athletics

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal, and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon. This soldier and quiet son of a shepherd would be acknowledged by many as the greatest long distance runner the world had ever known. One evening while returning to his home in Addis Ababa from training in the Ethiopian countryside, Bikila was involved in a tragic car accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Unable to walk and faced with the greatest challenge of his life, he struggled to maintain his will to live and in the process discovered a deeper meaning of competition...

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