Movie Info : BIFF Presents: Atletu (The Athlete)

Release date:

December 4th 2010

Genre:

Biography, Drama

Runtime:

93 min.

Country:

Ethiopia - USA - Germany

Language:

English - Ethiopian

IMDB info:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130965/

BIFF Presents: Atletu (The Athlete) Trailer

Description

Running the streets of Rome in 1960 an unknown barefoot Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. He repeated a similar feat four years later at the Tokyo Olympiad. One evening returning to his home in Addis Ababa after training, fate would present him with his greatest challenge: to dig deep within, not just to run the next mile, but to find the will to live...

Cast

Rasselas Lakew (Abebe Bikila)
Dag Malmberg (Onni)
Ruta Gedmintas (Charlotte)
Abba Waka Dessalegn (Priest)

Showing in Theatre 1, Galleria JFK at 1:30pm and 8:00pm, Dec. 4th, 2010

Currently playing in the following cinemas

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