CHARAKTER: ATHLETE / CHARAKTER:SPORTOVEC / ХАРАКТЕР: СПОРТСМЕН

2024 / 52' / Czech Republic

During the aggression on Ukraine, Russian soldiers killed more than 400 Ukrainian athletes. Russians destroyed hundreds of stadiums, sports centers, gyms, and pools. Thousands of young athletes and children fled war to foreign countries. Exactly two years after the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine, we were assessing the impact of the war on Ukrainian sports, athletes, and sports infrastructure.

Do Russians still have the right to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris?

Screenings schedule:

17.07.2024 at 17:30, House of Cinema, 6 Saksaganskogo Street (Kyiv), Blue Hall

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DIRECTOR - RADAN ŠPONGL

Biography

Journalist and television reporter Radan Šprongl is primarily associated with the public Czech Television.

He started his television journalism career in 1995 as a foreign correspondent for FTV Premiéra (today's FTV Prima), also worked for TV Nova, and in 1998 he moved to Czech Television as a reporter for the show Fakta.

He is known to the public mainly as a foreign correspondent. He has covered the civil war-torn Sierra Leone. But he has also made a documentary filmed during the war in Kosovo called Truth and Lies, dealing with war propaganda in the world media. He then made a documentary about the early days of the Iraq war, Days After.

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