In 1980s Czechoslovakia, young and talented sprinter Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As part of the preparation, she is placed in a secret "medical program,” where she is given anabolic steroids to better her performance. Her mother (Anna Geislerová) sees the drugs as Anna’s ticket out from behind the Iron Curtain, while Anna knows the doping is harming her body. In a story that follows the impacts of a decision, a young woman is tested by fate.
"A gripping tale of grace under pressure, crisply shot and handsomely packaged." - Stephen Dalton, THR
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Andrea Sedlácková (b. 1967, Prague) is a Czech movie and television director, screenwriter, and editor.
She studied screenwriting at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU), continuing her studies of editing and direction after emigrating to France at La Fémis in Paris (1990-93). For Czech Television she has made documentaries (e.g. What Did You Do in November?, 1994) and TV movies (e.g. A Beautiful Time, 2006). During her time in France she has been engaged mainly as an editor: her editing work on Welcome (2008) was nominated for a César, and Joyeux Nol (2005) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Both her previous features, Victims and Murderers (2000) and Seducer (2002), were successfully screened in cinemas in Czech Republic, while her latest film, Fair Play, competed for the Crystal Globe at KVIFF and tours the international film festivals.
She resides in both France and the Czech Republic, and at the moment she is preparing an adaptation of Josef Škvorecký’s The Cowards.
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