NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC’S PICK
“Marta Prus brilliantly construct[s] a very particular look at a sport in which
the arch of an eyebrow is as important as that of a spine.”
— Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR SUCCESS?
THIS MARCH, FILM MOVEMENT PREMIERES A MESMERIZING
AND INTIMATE SPORTS DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWING RUSSIAN GYMNAST MARGARITA MAMUN’S QUEST FOR OLYMPIC GOLD
OVER THE LIMIT
Street Date: March 12, 2019
DVD/Digital SRP: $24.95
Filmed Over Five Years by Former Gymnast and Documentarian Marta Prus,
This Acclaimed Film, an Official Selection at IDFA Amsterdam,
Includes the Bonus Short Film “Iron Hands”
SYNOPSIS
Superstar rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. At the age of twenty, she is soon to retire but has one final goal: winning Olympic gold. As Margarita pushes her body to its breaking point, Irina Viner-Usmanova, her strict coach, assails her with caustic, withering critiques. Is Irina a merciless tyrant or the motivating guidance Margarita needs to fulfill her dreams? Driven by the sport’s most infamous, groundbreaking and fiercely determined coach, OVER THE LIMIT becomes a nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama, which looks at the grueling Russian system for training athletes and the intense physical and mental labor put into a sport that thrives on its beautiful aesthetics.
For five years, former gymnast and documentarian Marta Prus followed Mamun on her pressure-filled quest for Olympic Gold. OVER THE LIMIT, Prus’ first feature-length documentary and an Official Selection at IDFA Amsterdam, the Moscow Int’l. Documentary Film Festival and Goteborg Film Festival, has been called “harrowing and thoroughly captivating” by Ben Croll of Screen Daily and “a film about what drives us, beyond logic and comfort” by Chelsea Phillips-Carr of POV Magazine.
BONUS FEATURE
Bonus Short Film — Iron Hands (Directed by Johnson Cheng | China, USA | 11 minutes | Mandarin with English Subtitles) — As a twelve-year-old girl prepares for her final test while trying out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team, she makes an unlikely connection with the gym’s reclusive groundskeeper.
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD & Digital (Amazon, iTunes, Vudu)
Running Time: 77 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen
Audio: 2.0 Stereo
Language: Russian with English Subtitles
About Film Movement
Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide. Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, Sergio Corbucci and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.
