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Wrestling (1961)

Wrestling poster
Original title
La lutte
Directed by
Marcel Carrière, Michel Brault, Claude Jutra, Claude Fournier
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
28 min
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This documentary focuses on professional wrestling in Montreal. It shows the wrestlers in the ring and behind the scenes.

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What happens

Wrestling (Original French title: La lutte) is a 1961 documentary film about professional wrestling in Montreal. It was produced by Jacques Bobet for the French program branch of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film was co-directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier and Claude Jutra, with Jutra and Fournier as cinematographers. (Due to confusion with the wrestling promotor Don Owen, film scholars have incorrectly credited the NFB's Don Owen as being the cinematographer or assistant director on Wrestling; the latter did not work on the film.) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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