Movie Review Race 2016 English Film

A charged moment in world history, Jesse Owens’ quadruple-gold performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is packed with symbolism ready-made for the movies. Leni Riefenstahl mined the stunning visual poetry of it for her landmark documentary Olympia. She did so in a film that otherwise celebrated Aryan supremacy, a Third Reich doctrine that the black American athlete’s triumph left in the dust. Race, in which Riefenstahl is a key supporting character, touches on such paradoxes, pointedly but politely.

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Rating - 3.5  / 5
Distributor: Focus Features
Production companies: A Forecast Pictures and ID+ production in association with the Jesse Owens Foundation and the Luminary Group of a Solofilms/Trinica/Trinity Race production
Cast: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, Carice van Houten, Shanice Banton, William Hurt, Eli Goree, Tony Curran, David Kross, Barnaby Metschurat, Amanda Crew, Jonathan Higgins, Chantel Riley, Shamier Anderson, Jeremy Ferdman, Giacomo Gianniotti, Michèle Lonsdale Smith, Andrew Moodie, Adrian Zwicker
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Screenwriters: Joe Schrapnel, Anna Waterhouse  
Producers: Jean-Charles Levy, Luc Dayan, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Dominique Seguin, Stephen Hopkins, Kate Garwood, Karsten Brunig, Nicolas Manuel
Executive producers: Patrick Teng, 
Paul Teng, 
Jonathan Bronfman, David Garrett,
 Sarah MacDonald, Al Munteanu,
 Mark Slone,
 Thierry Potok
Director of photography: Peter Levy
Production designer: David Brisbin

Costume designer: Mario Davignon

Editor: John Smith
Composer: Rachel Portman

Casting: Stephanie Gorin


Rated PG-13, 134 minutes