Endurance (film)
| Endurance | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Leslie Woodhead |
| Written by | Leslie Woodhead |
| Produced by | Terrence Malick Max Palevsky Edward R. Pressman |
| Starring | Haile Gebrselassie Shawananness Gebrselassie Yonas Zergaw Tedesse Haile Bekele Gebrselassie Alem Tellahun |
| Cinematography | Ivan Strasburg |
| Edited by | Saar Klein Oral Norrie Ottey |
| Music by | John Powell |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
Release dates | September 1998 (Telluride Film Festival) |
Running time | 83 minutes |
| Countries | United States United Kingdom Germany |
| Language | English |
Endurance is a 1998 docudrama film about the famous distance runner Haile Gebrselassie with Gebrselassie playing himself.[1]
It was written and directed by Leslie Woodhead, with Bud Greenspan supervising the competition sequences, and produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie features Gebrselassie's upbringing in Ethiopia and his subsequent triumph in the 10,000-meter track event in the Atlanta Olympic Games of 1996.
The movie was released on DVD on January 31, 2012.
See also
References
- ^ Cox, Dan (1998-09-04). "Streep gets fest rolling in Telluride". Variety. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
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- Walt Disney Pictures films
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- 1990s English-language films
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