Race

Directed by: Stephen Hopkins

 

Distribution:

Stephan James Jason Sudeikis Jeremy Irons William Hurt Carice Van Houten Amanda Crew Giacomo Gianniotti Eli Goree Jonathan Aris

 

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 2h14

Quality: Digital

 

Synopsis

The story spans roughly from 1934 to 1936. We follow JESSE OWENS as he gets recruited and trained by LARRY SNEIDER. The two become very close as they get to know one another. Larry helps Jesse find a better job to help pay for his tuition and help support his girlfriend RUTH and 18 month old daughter. As Jesse dominates national competitions he becomes famous in the United States and gets a lot of groupies. He has an affair with one of them, but when Ruth finds out and threatens to break up with him he rushes to his hometown to ask for forgiveness and her hand to make things official. Meanwhile in Berlin LENI RIEFENSTAHL, a filmmaker, tries to navigate Reich politics and GOEBBELS, the minister of Propaganda in order to be able to document the Olympics and create her film (which will be called Olympia) under her own terms. Back in the states two lawyers on the Olympic committee MAHONEY and BRUNDAGE debate on whether they should boycott the Olympic Games as the Nazis do not want to allow black people and Jews to compete. Brundage flies to Germany and smoothly cuts a deal with Goebbels to let African American and Jewish American athletes participate in the Games. As the Games near, there is more and more pressure on the young athlete to participate....or not participate because of the Nazi regime but in the end, as we all know, he not only participates but dominates and ends up winning 4 Olympic gold medals, a feat that had only occurred once before.