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Synopsis: The 1980s in Czechoslovakia. The young 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 she's getting doped with anabolic steroids. Her performance is getting better, but after she collapses at the training, she learns the truth about the drugs. Anna decides to continue in 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 the last 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.
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Andrea Sedlácková
  1 win & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Year:
2014
100 min
726 Views


Hello Mrs Moravcova.

Hello.

We summoned you for yesterday.

Why didn't you come?

I wasn't feeling well.

You look quite fine today.

ve brought you the agreement of cooperation.

I guess you've had enough time to make up your mind.

Sorry but my daughter is preparing

for a very important race

and is all we can think about now.

How long will you need to think about it?

Give me a month please.

I won't have any time for Mr Kriz by then anyway.

Fine.

See you.

Thank you.

Bye.

We'll send her for a chest X-ray.

Hop!

Two.

Hop!

Three.

Hop!

- Martina, whas wrong with you?

- The Achilles tendon is killing me.

- Aren't you making it up?

- What?

I don't want to see your results

in Germany. Do some rehab ex.

Anna, excellentjob.

If you keep on working like this

m sure you'll make the limit.

Do some jogging and then home.

Mum, I thought I should go and see some normal doctor.

Why? Don't you feel well?

I haven't had my period back yet.

Ls weird, isn't it?

It used to happen to me too when I trained

hard. Don't worry. Anna, do it properly!

Jesus Christ.

Still the period worries me.

Martina said Stromba makes women infertile.

What does Martina know about it?

You just train too much, thas all.

I would hate to be caught now when m back in shape.

m really glad we decided that I would quit taking it.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Are you waiting for an X-ray?

- No.

Hello.

Go in and strip to the waist.

Mrs Moravcova, take off your bra.

Come closer.

More.

Now press your chest against the X-ray.

When the red light goes on,

you'll hold your breath for 5 seconds.

Urine sample results.

Thanks.

Excellent. Really excellent.

It all works perfectly well.

One more box before the races

and then you'll have a pause.

Can you hear me, Anna?

Get dressed and wait outside.

- Hi.

- Hi.

How did the check-up go?

The tests? Well, the results are great.

This is not the B, is it?

What have you been giving me?

How long have you been doing it?

Since when?

Since February.

Why?

I thought it was worth it

if it helped you get to the Olympics.

But you knew I didn't want it.

Ls been awful for me too, you know?

But I do it for your own good.

- You must live a different life.

- Different? What would change?

What are you talking about?

Anna, I want you to emigrate.

I meant to tell you when the time is right.

How could you think d agree?

m not staying here with you anymore.

All I want is to let you live a normal free life,

study, train under better conditions.

And mostly to prevent you from

being forced into taking this sh*t.

Marek found a Frenchman whom

I could marry and then I would join you.

- So you've planned it thoroughly!

- Of course I have!

- Anna, you can't stay in this country.

- Thas what you say! Not me.

Don't you see that Stromba is just one

of those things? It could be anything!

You might end up like me,

a cleaning lady, or even in the jail!

Mum, you've lied to me giving

me that sh*t! You're just like them!

At least try to understand!

Annie, m sorry!

You did the right thing, Anna.

You heard my parents. They agree.

Is it ok with them if I sleep here?

They said you can stay until you find your own place.

Ls nice of them.

Dad understands because he knows

what this Stromba can do to you.

I really can't go to Karl-Marx-Stadt.

- Why?

- m completely doped up.

Nonsense. You must go there.

You can't give up now.

I want to be proud of you.

You have to win.

Good evening.

Anna doesn't want to talk to you.

Could you tell her to come back home, please?

Well done, girls.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Tomas, please.

- Whas going on here?

Nothing. We're decorating next week.

You should have told me.

I could help you.

Thas ok, we can manage ourselves.

This is for aunt.

No, thanks. Just leave it.

Has anything happened?

No.

Ls just that...

Mum has been a nervous wreck lately.

She hates to have me here, right?

There are some things you can do nothing about.

I understand.

m going to miss you.

Very, very much.

ll send you a postcard. Even though

I will be back before it arrives.

I love you.

I love you too.

So we'll meet at the reception,

the training starts at 4, ok?

My dearest Annie, my parents

decided to immigrate to Austria.

Don't be angry with me, I wasn't

allowed to tell you. I love you so much.

- Anna, are you there?

- I am.

Hurry up, we're waiting for you.

I can't go now. I feel too bad.

Whas wrong? Should I call the doctor?

No. I want to be alone.

Mind your manners. Open up now!

Coach, please, ll be fine tomorrow

but leave me alone now.

The race is tomorrow. Come on,

you have to do at least some jogging.

m not running today. Go away!

There will be consequences!

22,81!

Anna, bravo, awesome, great! 22,81!

Congratulations!

We're going to the Olympics! You did it!

We did it!

ve brought a lot of laundry.

And m not taking the sh*t anymore.

- But I do agree with you.

- On what?

On that plan of yours.

Anna, whas wrong with you?

You look tired.

Mum, Tomas has emigrated.

Jesus Christ.

Stop.

You can thank us for being in such a great shape.

No, doctor Pavelka is justjoking.

Anna can thank only herself.

If you could see her during a training.

She runs like a wind. ve never

seen anything like this before.

Now you must not rest on your laurels.

Sure.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Listen, she's to take a double dose

for a week. Then a pause

and off we go to the Olympics.

I wish you could come with us.

Also, we must celebrate it some time.

Ok, but only after the Olympics so we don'tjinx it.

- Thanks. Bye.

- Bye.

- Perhaps you'll see him again.

- Perhaps. m not sure if I want to.

- Moravcova speaking.

- Hi, is Marek. - Hi.

Sorry, I need you to copy something for

me. Ls urgent. m outside your house.

Ok. m coming. Bye.

I got cramps in my hand.

Shall I help you?

- Write?

- Yeah.

Ok, start from here:

"...the repressive intervention..."

Thank you.

Anna?

- m going downstairs.

- Now?

Police! Open the door!

House search!

Excuse me. Thank you.

Good morning, this is a house search.

Why?

Mrs Moravcova, we are usually the ones who ask questions.

But if you want to know,

we're looking for subversive materials.

When we find them, you'll go to jail.

Or you can sign the agreement.

You still have time.

Thanks for your offer.

I have made up my mind. Please.

Can you give me back my postcard?

No.

- Why not?

- Because I have confiscated it.

We'll meet again.

Excuse me.

Do you have the keys to the mangling room?

You know very well how the materials came to you.

If you don't tell me forget about the Olympics.

Did Marek Kriz give them to your mum?

Do they meet often?

I don't know.

ve been up and about since 4am

and my patience is running thin.

Comrade Kracik? Novotny speaking.

We've met in matters of young

Moravcova. I need you to come over.

- Right now? To the headquarters?

- Yes.

This is a propagation of subversive texts.

If you don't sign the cooperation

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