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Date:
December 15, 2022

CO-PRODUCTION FORUM

Marathon

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Marathon

by Peter Kerekes
kerekesfilm | Slovakia, Hypermarket Film | Czech Republic and Eclipse Film | Hungary)

Documentary

Logline

The mental map of our film is bound with one hundred years of the Kosice marathon. Following the runners who ran for a victory and the citizens who had to run to survive the 20th century.

Synopsis

Through the history of the Košice Marathon, held for a hundred years in Košice, a small city in the heart of Europe, we learn stories woven across the world.

Stories of people running for freedom, running to be ahead of their time, running to run. In the documentary film Marathon, the history of the town and the history of the marathon are blurring into one. To capture how the century sprinted across town.

From the first marathon, Košice was part of four different governments. The states were created and dissolved, but the marathon stayed. Following the footsteps of time through tales of the marathon runners. The marathon track, blue lines on the road marking the way to the past. Behind the bend in a road is the present which disappears in the fog of autumn morning in the memory of the runners. Marathon was always in October.

Director’s Profile

Peter Kerekes is a director and producer. He is known for documentaries such as 66 SEASONS (2003), COOKING HISTORY (2009) and VELVET TERRORISTS (2013 co-directed by Pavol Pekarčík and Ivan Ostrochovský), which became a festival hits and won several awards. His first fiction feature 107 MOTHERS(2021) premiered at the Venice IFF, where it won the Best Screenplay award in the Orizzonti section. He was the producer behind the film Occupation 1968 (2018), and co-produced titles by renowned documentary directors with his production company kerekesfilm.

Company Profile

Production company called kerekesfilm was established in 2021 and is a direct continuation of the successful work of company Peter Kerekes Ltd., which was established in 1998 by Peter Kerekes, who works as a producer, director and a consultant. The main focus is to create creative documentaries which are internationally funded and produced. kerekesfilm Ltd. regularly cooperates with the Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS; formerly Slovak Television) and Czech Television (ČT). The company is co-producing films with producers from the UK, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria.
trackrecord:
STEPNE
FRAGILE MEMORY
107 MOTHERS
CAUGHT IN THE NET
THE WIND. DOCUMENTARY THRILLER
BATASTORIES
THE WHITE WORLD ACCORDING TO DALIBOREK
VELVET TERORISTS