![]() Freestyle Wrestling. The New gladiatorsGenre: Current Affairs
Running time: 44'
Directed by: Alexandr Smirnov, Igor Ivanov
Year of production: 2005
Ancient Rome. Theatre of gladiators. The Professional sport of those severe time. The best fighters go out in the arena to entertain spectators. Required of them were their skills to gracefully kill and gracefully die. They were loved and feared. In the XX century this show has been named “Freestyle Wrestling”. It is forbidden to hit in the eyes, on a backbone, or to break out joints and to bite. Everything that is not forbidden, is authorized. The spectator sees only what is shown to him. The true world of Freestyle Wrestling is closed from the outside world. None of the fighters will ever tell through what hell of these illegal street fights they had to go through. Many have become cripples. Many have been broken mentality. Many have been turned into derelicts of society. The defeated are not remembered by anyone. Winners are loved by all.This is a truthful and unique story of the Russian fighter which could rise to world fame on the top of a bloody sport. |