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In ‘The Track’ Young Lugers Pursue Olympic Dreams On A Course Pocked With Scars Of War – True/False Film Fest
Sarajevo's bullet-ridden Olympic luge run is at the center of 'The Track,' a documentary holding its world premiere at True/False in Columbia, MO.
Introducing The Track, True/False Artistic Director Chloé Trayner noted, “This film completely stole the hearts of our programming team as soon as we watched it.” The documentary appeared to land similarly with the audience at the Missouri Theater; when the lights came up, they gave it a standing ovation. The film shows coach Senad repairing damage to the concrete, patching cracks and sweeping debris from the course – pinecones and pine needles from the surrounding trees that could prove a tremendous hazard for a sled zooming at a breakneck pace. “With this charming wink, BiH Olympic athlete Mirza Nikolajev drew the attention of millions of Chinese people,” China’s Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina noted at the time, “and [he] climbed up the list of hot topics on the popular [social] network Weibo.”
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