In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Acting
Pecháček's controlled devastation, Geislerová's chilling complicity.
Direction
Sedláčková's unflinching gaze at institutional rot.
Production
Sweaty authenticity of 80s Czech training facilities.
Director
Andrea Sedláčková
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real Czech doping scandals; the state-sponsored program was called 'State Plan 14.25'. Sedláčková interviewed actual victims.
The title's bitter irony: Anna's 'fair play' ethics become her destruction in a rigged system.
CZ
