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Long Distance Runner

dir. Jacek Szarański / Poland 2008 / 20’

subtitles: English

Polish Short Movies Competition 7109 km, A Tag, All Anna's Little Lies, An Idea, Blue, Canal, Charon Taxi, Chasm, Chemo, Chick, City With No God, Decalogue 89+ – the Seventh: Street Feeling, Different Story, Early Learning, Grandma Has Gone, Hands, Happy Jews, I Know Who Did It, Incantatio, Inventorium of Traces, Kids and Fish Have No Voice, Last Supper, Long Distance Runner, Long Live The Funeral!!!, Lucky, Meles Meles, Merry Christmas, Mother, Mr. F, Nowhere Blues, Observe the Sabbath and Keep It Holy, On Credit, Panta Rhei, Pause, Polish Film Novel, Pupeeds, Puppets, Rabbit a la Berlin, Scream, Sicilian Flea, Side Track, Six Weeks, Sleep-Walkers, Strawberry Fields, Szeol, The Actors, The Answer, The Bay, The Contract, The Day After Tomorrow, The Gravediggers, The Incident, The Lucky Ones, The Rest of the World, Vena cava, What the Doctors Say, Where the Sun Doesn't Rush, Yoko Ono's Cups Section index

Film description

The character of the film - the retired miner from the Silesia - has 78 thousand kilometres in his legs. Right now, he starts encircling the earth for the second time. He trains unique and out-of-the-way sport discipline in Poland - ultramarathon. He is able to run 378 km within two days continually - distance between Bielsko Biała and Warsaw. However, he is still asking himself a question: what would it be if he had not taken certain decision 18 years ago, when he was facing a family tradegy…