Set in Czechoslovakia in the 1980, young and talented sprinter Anna (Judit Bárdos) is selected for the national team and starts training to qualify for the Olympic Games. As a part of the preparation she is placed in a secret "medical programme" where they begin dopeing her with anabolic steroids. Her performance improves, but after she collapses at training, she learns the truth. Anna decides to continue her training without the steroids even though her mother (Anna Geislerova) is worried that she won't be able to keep up with other athletes and might not qualify for the Olympics, which she sees as the only chance for her daughter to escape from behind the Iron Curtain. After Anna finishes in last place in the indoor race, her mother informs the coach (Roman Luknar) that Anna is no longer using steroids. They decide to apply the steroids to Anna secretly, pretending it's nothing but doses of harmless vitamins.

Direction: Andrea Sedlackova

Script: Andrea Sedlackova

Production: Pavel Strnad, Katerina Cerna, Silvia Panakova, Thommy Kral, Undine Filter, Christine Haupt, Pavel Strnad

Cinematography: Jan Baset Stritezsky

Editing: Jakub Hejna

Production Design: Petr Forst, Viera Dandova

Costume Design: Simona Rybakova

Sound: Daniel Nemec

Original Score: David Solar, Miro Zbrika

Cast: Judit Bardos, Ana Geislerova, Roman Luknar

Original Title: FAIR PLAY

Original Language: Czech

Subtitles: English

Film Production Countries: Czechia, Germany, Slovakia

Website: www.fariplayfilm.cz

Biography of the Director/s:
Andrea Sedláčková (b. 1967, Prague) is a Czech movie and television director, screenwriter, and editor. She studied screenwriting at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU), continuing her training in editing and direction after emigrating to France at La Fémis in Paris (1990-93). For Czech Television she has shot documentaries (e.g. What Did You Do in November?, 1994) and made-for-TV movies (e.g. A Beautiful Time, 2006). During her time in France she has been engaged mainly as an editor: her cutting work on Welcome (2008) was nominated for a César, and Joyeux Noël (2005) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Both her previous features, Victims and Murderers (2000) and Seducer (2002), screened at KVIFF, while her latest film, Fair Play, will compete for the Crystal Globe. She resides in both France and the Czech Republic, and at present she is preparing an adaptation of Josef Škvorecký’s The Cowards.

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