Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
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.
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.
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.