Lone fighter (documentary)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lone fighter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sandra Kaudelka |
| production | Martin Heisler |
| music | Cassis Birgit Staudt |
| camera |
Jenny Lou Bricks Hendrik Reichel |
| cut |
Sandra Kaudelka Vessela Martschewski |
| occupation | |
Lone Fighters is a German documentary by Sandra Kaudelka (* 1977) from 2013 , which the filmmaker shot as a thesis for her degree in directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . It portrays four athletes who were successful in the former GDR :
- Brita Baldus , European Champion in Diving
- Udo Beyer , Olympic champion in the shot put
- Ines Geipel , former athletics world record holder in a 4 x 100 meter relay
- Marita Koch , Olympic champion in the 400-meter run and owner of an almost 30-year-old, still existing track and field world record (achieved in 1985); portrayed in the film with her trainer and husband Wolfgang Meier .
The film premiered on February 15, 2013 in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival , where it was also described under the English title I will not lose . With the exception of Udo Beyer, those portrayed were present at the premiere.
In the film, the director describes and asks where in the GDR talented athletes got the motivation to advance to the top of the world. She starts from her own situation when she got into the time of the collapse of the GDR as a competitive water jumping athlete.
In the last part, the film takes up the state-prescribed doping in GDR competitive sport . Among other things, Udo Beyer confesses in front of the camera that he has taken prohibited substances to improve performance.
Ines Geipel, who became known as a sharp critic of the GDR's doping system after the end of the GDR, describes the story of a planned escape to the West and the brutal reaction after her plans became known. The athlete's internal organs were deliberately injured during an appendix operation in order to "put them on ice".
Web links
- Single fighter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Presentation on the Berlinale homepage (German); Berlinale catalog page (German, English, PDF file; 143 kB)
- Page to the film on the homepage of the production company Lichtblick Media