Lovelock (1992)
Synopsis
Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In front of Hitler and 110,000 spectators, the famous ‘Lovelock kick’ unfurled into NZ’s sporting and collective consciousness: from Timaru to Oxford, to Berlin triumph. Yet Lovelock was an enigmatic achiever. In this short film, the race — the supremely judged apex of a sporting career — is contrasted with his mysterious and tragic death, in front of a train on the New York subway in 1949.
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Runtime: 16 minutes
Director: David Robertson
Top Cast
- Crispin Balfour as Jack Lovelock
- Alistair Douglas as Bill Thomas
- Andrew Couling as Glenn Cunningham
- Peter Needham as First Official
- Wolfgang Leonhardt as Angry Official
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