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Fair Play
Fair Play
7.4
/10
114 Ratings

FAIR PLAY

Directed by Andrea Sedlácková
Czechia, 2014
Drama, Sport

Synopsis

Czechoslovakia, 1980. Anna, a young and talented athlete, is training for the Olympic Games. To maximize her stats, her coach and doctor talk to Anna’s mother and secretly prescribe an anabolic steroid for Anna.

Synopsis

Czechoslovakia, 1980. Anna, a young and talented athlete, is training for the Olympic Games. To maximize her stats, her coach and doctor talk to Anna’s mother and secretly prescribe an anabolic steroid for Anna.

Our take

Based on the secretive state-sponsored doping of athletes behind the Iron Curtain, this nuanced drama set in Communist-era Czechoslovakia explores its shocking impact on a young competitor in the run-up to the Olympics. A politically poignant coming-of-age story from Andrea Sedlácková.