The Modern Pentathlon
( Pieciobój nowoczesny (Pentathlon moderne) )

Bogdan Dziworski
1975 - 8 min - 35 mm - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - Pologne

A documentary film about a sports event demanding versatility and professional preparation — the modern pentathlon. We watch exhausting training and footage from the event while some questions lurk in our minds: what's the sense of all this and where's the limit of human possibilities in sport?
Bogdan Dziworski’s zenith in sport documentary is a wonderful visual poem, a portrait of the Polish Olympic champion Janusz Peciak and a meditation upon human endurance. The editing slowly mixes up the five sports until their inextricable unity.



Author-Director : Bogdan Dziworski
Photography : Bogdan Dziworski, Ryszard Lenczewski
Sound : Jozef Pietrow
Editing : Anna Nawrocka
Delegate Producer : WFO (Wytwornia Filmow Oswiatowych)

Distribution


Distributor : WFO (Wytwornia Filmow Oswiatowych)

Distinctions

2012 - États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas (France) :