My Way To Olympia

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The film director Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey with the athletes who compete at the Paralympic Games in London 2012. He himself is a short-armed avowed hater of sport, who cannot understand how anyone could take on such an ordeal voluntarily, particularly since everyday life for people with a disability is challenging enough without the added pressures of competitive sports.


Press

  • The Hollywood Reporter
    Premiering at the Berlinale last week, this highly personal and surprisingly funny documentary follows a group of disabled athletes preparing to compete in the Paralympic Games in London last summer. The German director Niko von Glasow, a former assistant to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was himself born with short arms because his mother took the notorious sedative Thalidomide during pregnancy.
    Stephen Dalton
  • Who Am I To Stop It
    Von Glasow does a great service to the disability community by asking the athletes questions completely separate from their disabilities... He does this because people are people, disability or not. And people have a past, histories, and tragedies in their lives (such as war) that have nothing to do with disability.

Festival Participation

  • Berlinale
  • San Francisco Doc Fest
  • Message To Man FF
  • Montreal World FF

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