26 Times in a Row

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26 Times in a Row (1978)

Directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque

Documentary · 24m

This short documentary revisits the 1976 Olympic Marathon. A modern-day addition to the Games, the marathon commemorates the soldier who ran cross-country, in 490 B.C., to announce the Greek victory at Marathon and then died. Here, great film footage of the 1976 Summer Olympics captures the physical demands of the race, while its emotional counterpart is related by Waldemar Cierpinski, the event’s 1976 gold medalist. This emotion-charged film proves that although the winner of the Decathlon is the best all-round athlete, the “toughest” is the winner of the Marathon

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Crew

Director
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Director of Photography
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Editor
Alain Sauvé
Producer
Jacques Bobet

Details

Original title
26 fois de suite!
Release date
1978-01-01
Runtime
24m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Countries
Canada
Production
ONF | NFB