Summer Cinema: Zátopek

A film dedicated not only to sport, but also to the life story of one of the world's greatest athletes of all time, four-time Olympic champion Emil Zátopek.
A story about victories in love and sport, which require a big heart.

Zátopek begins in the turbulent year 1968. Against all odds, Australian record holder Ron Clarke has just missed what is probably his last chance for an Olympic medal when he suffers a serious collapse during a key race. Left questioning the meaning of his career, Ron decides to pay a visit to legendary runner Emil Zátopek, whom he admires immensely. Ron’s chats with Emil Zátopek take us back to key moments in Zátopek’s sporting and private life and reveal a complex portrait of a man who never loses pace even after his last race is over, and who always musters the strength to fight both on and off the track. It is a story of a sickly youngster’s transformation into the man who took three gold medals in the 1952 Olympics and set world records in each of his disciplines, and became a legend of indomitable willpower who still inspires thousands of athletes around the world. But Zátopek is also the story of a fateful encounter and the life-long love between two people that neither sports nor life’s losses could break.

The film was made with the personal support of Olympic champion Dana Zátopková, by whose side the phenomenal athlete spent his whole life.

Directed by: David Ondříček
CZ | 2021| 102 min. | Drama, Biographical, Sports
In Czech with English subtitles

https://www.filmzatopek.cz/en/