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'The Winner' is a 2014 Hungarian short film directed by Dvid Gczy, starring Andor Lukts and Ivn Kamars. The film is supported by Media Council Film and Media Funding Scheme.

Plot



It is a short fiction movie about an old swimming coach, Istvn Kovcs (Andor Lukts), who won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow in swimming.

He gets a life-changing medical diagnosis. As a result, he has to abstain from any physical activity. By now all his fame and honour has faded, and he's stuck coaching undisciplined, useless children who'd never understand what it means to strive for something and achieve it. Every day he races against the younger version of himself (Ivn Kamars), unable to come to terms with his present circumstances. He decides to swim his top score from back at the Olympics. But this battle defeats him.

The film focuses on the question "is a winner really a winner?"

Cast



* Andor Lukts (old swimming coach and former Olympic swimming winner in 2014)

* Ivn Kamars (the young Olympic swimming winner in 1980)

* Eszter Fldes (his wife)

* Simon Szemz (Simon, child)

* Tams Racsek (Tomi, child)

* Mt Veczel (Mt, child)

* Adam Lux (doctor)

* Gerg Mikola (Ivan Popov, russian swimmer)

* Askar Shalov (Mongolian Swimmer)

* Lszl Zinner (politician)

Premiere and festival screenings



*TV premiere: M1 (TV channel) - 30 August 2014

*Budapest premiere: Cinema City MOM Park - 23 September 2014

*Hungarian Film Week - October 2014

*25. MEDIAWAVE Festival - April 2015

*International premiere: Odense International Film Festival (OFF15) - August 2015

*11. Busho International Short Film Festival - September 2015

*31. Interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festival - November 2015.

*13. Bogot Short Film Festival - Bogoshorts, Colombia - December 2015

*12. Akbank Short Film Festival, Turkey - Istanbul - March 2016



References




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