1977 | Canada | Documentary

Jeux de la XXIème olympiade (Games of the XXI Olympiad)

  • French 118 mins
  • Director | Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux
  • Writer | Georges Seltzer
  • Producer | Jacques Bobet

STATUS: Released

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-The Olympic Stadium in Montreal (Canada) stands during a snowstorm into the 1976-77 winter season. As we see it, it makes us remember that the Olympic Games were there several months ago. The movie rather depicts other great stories, other than the media told: among them, we followed Soviet gymnast Nelly Kim, who fell second behind Romanian Nadia Comaneci and other stories attached to this 15 days of glory. This movie depicts the events on a human side rather than the glamorous side. It mostly ends with the moving theme done by André Gagnon and played during the marathon, an event which the runners had to face rain.

Montreal Humanistic Athletics Documentary Olympics
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The Criterion Collection
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