Freedom's Fury (2006)

Original title

A Szabadság Vihara

Directed by

Colin Keith Gray

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia, United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about the 1956 Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union. The game became a violent confrontation against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution.

tensehistoricalsportspatrioticgrittyinspirationalvisceralunderdog

What happens

Freedom's Fury is a documentary film about the semifinal water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The match took place against the background of the Hungarian Revolution, that was brutally crushed by the Soviet army, and it quickly turned into a violent battle, with contemporaries dubbing it the "Blood in the Water match." The documentary was written and directed by Colin Keith Gray and Megan Raney Aarons, the brother and sister duo better known as "The Sibs". Gray's Michigan co-alumnus Lucy Liu, while working on Kill Bill, helped them enlist Quentin Tarantino as co-executive producer with Liu in 2001. Freedom's Fury was produced by Kristine Lacey, executive produced by Quentin Tarantino, Lucy Liu, Amy Sommer, and Andrew G. Vajna, and co-produced by Thor Halvorssen. Narration was provided by Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz, who as a teenager had been coached by Ervin Zádor. The film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the match. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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