Marta Prus

Over the limit

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Over the limit

Marta Prus

2017

74 min.

Poland, Germany and Finland

Russian

Subtitles: Catalan and Spanish

Over the Limit portrays a young sportswoman on her path to the Olympic gold

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Show

Direction

Marta Prus

Sound

Maciej Pawłowski

Distribution

DocsBarcelona Distribution

Production

Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kępińska

Photography

Adam Sebastian Suzin

Edition

Maciej Pawlinski

Datasheet

Direction

Marta Prus

Sound

Maciej Pawłowski

Distribution

DocsBarcelona Distribution

Production

Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kępińska

Photography

Adam Sebastian Suzin

Edition

Maciej Pawlinski

Synopsis

Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It is the most crucial year of her career and her last chance to achieve her ultimate dream, a gold medal. The film creates an intense portrait of a young woman who is desperately trying to handle her own ambitions and fulfill the expectations from the official Russian training system. The film reveals the hidden world of the elite gymnasts and an insight into the harsh and successful triangle between the young sportswoman and her two trainers.

About the direction

Marta Prus

Director

Graduated from a course of Documentary Film Making at Andrzej Wajda's Master School and Contemporary...

More info

DocsBarcelona Trajectory

2018

DocsBarcelona Festival · Panorama Section

Edició 2018

2018

Docs del Mes · September

Edició 2018

Awards and festivals

ZagrebDox

Croatia, 2017

CinéDoc TBILISI

Georia, 2018

One World Film Fest

Czech Republic, 2017

IDFA

Netherland, 2017

Visions du Réel

Swiss, 2017

Marta Prus

Over the limit

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Reviews

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By the end of the movie's, this resilient young woman seems shockingly untraumatized; the audience might not be so lucky.
— Jeannette Catsoulis · New York Times

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With her first feature-length documentary Over the Limit, Polish writer-director Marta Prus does for rhythmic gymnastics what Damien Chazelle did for drumming in Whiplash.
— Neil Young · Hollywood Reporter

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Just watching it induces veritable stomach cramps, though it's impossible to turn away from the film's whipcrack construction and expert manipulation of perspective.
— Guy Lodge · Variety

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