elements
Written by: Pan Nalin with Anna Waterhouse & Joe Shrapnel
Director: Steven Hopkins
Shooting Locations: Berlin / Cologne / Montreal
Budget: 20 M €
Shooting: Spring 2014
Producers: Jean Charles LEVY / Luc DAYAN
Canadian coproducers: SOLO FILMS – Dominique Seguin & Louis Philippe Rochon
German coproducers: DALKA & COLOGNE Studios – Thierry Potok & Karstyn Bruning
Executive producer: Le Castle / Pure Grass Films : Christophe Charlier
Find the good. It’s all around you.
Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
Director: Steven Hopkins
Shooting Locations: Berlin / Cologne / Montreal
Budget: 20 M €
Shooting: Spring 2014
Producers: Jean Charles LEVY / Luc DAYAN
Canadian coproducers: SOLO FILMS – Dominique Seguin & Louis Philippe Rochon
German coproducers: DALKA & COLOGNE Studios – Thierry Potok & Karstyn Bruning
Executive producer: Le Castle / Pure Grass Films : Christophe Charlier
Find the good. It’s all around you.
Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
synopsis
RACE is a movie about the « tragic and magic » history of Jesse Owens. Focused on the annunciating Olympics held in Berlin in 1936, and seen through the eyes of Leni Riefenstahl. 2013, year of the centennial of Jesse Owens birth, is a perfect year to convey Jesse’s universal and iconic sport’s values.
“Your body is not yours, it belongs to the Führer.” Hitler dreamt that the athlete of the Reich must embody the ideal portrait of the Aryan as it was conceived by the Nazi regime: the heir of both the ancient heroes and the modern athlete.
Olympics, run by Hitler and his Nazi party at that time promoted its citizens as intellectually, morally, and athletically superior to other races and were openly hostile to those who dare to differ.
That Nazi dream was brutally shattered in Berlin by a Black American Jesse Owens, winner of four Olympic gold medals and the setter of six world records in a single afternoon’s unmatchable burst of eternal glory.
Jesse Owens wowed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Germany. He single-handedly demonstrated that Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy was a lie.
Jesse was a sharecropper’s son who lived by polishing shoes in Alabama, a land of poor farmers and slaves. He took on America by storm with his attitude, class, dignity and athletic performances. Jesse’s only weapon is his body; his only strategy is to run, and his only aim is to race for himself and human race…
RACE will show racism, in Germany and in USA, under its worst shape, when it becomes logical, rational and standardized.
Olympics, run by Hitler and his Nazi party at that time promoted its citizens as intellectually, morally, and athletically superior to other races and were openly hostile to those who dare to differ.
That Nazi dream was brutally shattered in Berlin by a Black American Jesse Owens, winner of four Olympic gold medals and the setter of six world records in a single afternoon’s unmatchable burst of eternal glory.
Jesse Owens wowed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Germany. He single-handedly demonstrated that Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy was a lie.
Jesse was a sharecropper’s son who lived by polishing shoes in Alabama, a land of poor farmers and slaves. He took on America by storm with his attitude, class, dignity and athletic performances. Jesse’s only weapon is his body; his only strategy is to run, and his only aim is to race for himself and human race…
RACE will show racism, in Germany and in USA, under its worst shape, when it becomes logical, rational and standardized.