The Day Sports Stood Still (2021)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Charles Barkley, Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant, Malika Andrews, Mookie Betts, Natasha Cloud
Country: United States of America
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Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).
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