Film
Lovelock
1992 · 16m
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Overview
Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In front of Hitler and 110,000 spectators, the famous ‘Lovelock kick’ unfurled into NZ’s sporting and collective consciousness: from Timaru to Oxford, to Berlin triumph. Yet Lovelock was an enigmatic achiever. In this short film, the race — the supremely judged apex of a sporting career — is contrasted with his mysterious and tragic death, in front of a train on the New York subway in 1949.
Cast
Crispin Balfour
Jack Lovelock
Alistair Douglas
Bill Thomas
Andrew Couling
Glenn Cunningham
Peter Needham
First Official
Wolfgang Leonhardt
Angry Official
Crew
- David RobertsonDirector
- Stuart HoarWriter
- Bruce SheridanProducer
- Donald DuncanDirector of Photography
- Wayne LairdOriginal Music Composer
- Ken SparksEditor
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1992
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 16m
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