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  • 2018
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Summary Over the Limit shows how the successful Russian system for training athletes transgresses boundaries. Elite rhythmic gymnast Rita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. She’s soon to retire, but has one final goal set out for her: winning Olympic gold. A nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama about the intense physical and mental...

Directed By: Marta Prus

Written By: Marta Prus

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 14 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 14 m

Over the Limit

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Summary Over the Limit shows how the successful Russian system for training athletes transgresses boundaries. Elite rhythmic gymnast Rita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. She’s soon to retire, but has one final goal set out for her: winning Olympic gold. A nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama about the intense physical and mental...

Directed By: Marta Prus

Written By: Marta Prus

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100
Oct 8, 2018
The intense abuse captured in Marta Prus’s brilliant, diamond-hard documentary portrait of a Russian rhythmic gymnast’s punishing road to the 2016 Olympics is all too vividly real — 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.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 11, 2018
Reports of excessively punitive training of female gymnasts surface with some regularity, so in that sense Over the Limit is not unexpected. But the Polish director Marta Prus, brilliantly constructing a very particular look at a sport in which the arch of an eyebrow is as important as that of a spine, remains coolly impassive.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
88
Sep 29, 2018
The film is composed of minutely observed moments that Marta Prus has assembled into an affecting narrative.
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80
Oct 8, 2018
Obtaining all-areas access to Olympic-competing Russian star athlete Margarita Mamun, Prus records in intense detail the verbal and physical pressures to which the young woman is subjected by her fiercely determined coaches.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Chimney, Marianna Films, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Telemark, Telewizja Polska (TVP), Ventana Film, Yleisradio (YLE)
Release Date Oct 12, 2018
Duration 1 h 14 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline How far will you go for a success? A story of Margarita Mamun
Website https://web.facebook.com/overthelimit.film/
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Awards

Krakow Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Luxembourg City Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
ZagrebDox
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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