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Boxers and Ballerinas

Original title: Boxers and Ballerinas
Year: 2004
Running time: 84 min.
Country: United States
Director: Mike Cahill, Brit Marling
Screenwriter: Mike Cahill, Brit Marling. Story: Nicholas Shumaker
Cast: Documentary
Music: Craig Wedren
Cinematography: Mike Cahill, Brit Marling
Producer: Co-production United States-Panama;
Genre: Documentary | Boxing. Independent Film (US)
Synopsis: Boxers and Ballerinas is about four young people forever united by their cultural heritage, and forever divided by 90 miles of water and over 40 years of political conflict. The documentary traces the lives of a boxer and a ballerina in Miami, Florida, and a boxer and a ballerina in Havana, Cuba: their triumphs and failures, their power and powerlessness, and the singular intensity and violence of being young. Boxers and Ballerinas cuts through the romantic mystery of Cuba, the neon stereotype of Miami, and the political noise of US-Cuba relations to the sweat, sex, grace and aggression of winning the fight, nailing the pirouette, and chasing the dream until the body gives in. It is a film about young people by young people. Characters Yordenis Ugas: 17, 2003 World champion Junior Boxer 57kg, Cuba Yordenis fought his way out of the heavily impoverished, predominantly black district of Santiago de Cuba to earn a spot in Cuba's elite athletics school in Havana...

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Boxers and Ballerinas

2004

Mike Cahill, Brit Marling