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The Champion (1979)
Directed by Dušan Trančík
Drama · 1h 18m
Tou former boxers meet in the ring again after years for a re-run of an old match. The old loser currently works as a factory executive and he is unwilling to reconcile with his old defeat. He challenges the old winner, whose job in a garage puts him on the opposite end ofthe career ladder. The match is a battle fought between two men who stand for two different attitudes to life. The confrontation results in the revelation that the winner is not always the one whose arm is raised by the referee after the last round.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Dušan Trančík
- Screenplay
- Dušan Trančík, Tibor Vichta
- Director of Photography
- Viktor Svoboda
- Original Music Composer
- Svetozár Štúr, Juraj Bindzár
- Editor
- Alfréd Benčič
Details
- Original title
- Víťaz
- Release date
- 1979-03-02
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- SK
- Spoken languages
- Slovak
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Slovenská filmová tvorba