Release Date

01 Jan, 1992

Runtime

00:16: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

Lovelock

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Actors

Crew

David Robertson

Bruce Sheridan

Stuart Hoar

Donald Duncan

Iain Aitken

Wayne Laird

Ken Sparks

Bruce Sheridan

Clinton Phillips

Jessica Hobbs

John Flavell

Tim Cronin

Guy Richards

Adriana Tuscia