Documentary

The Secret of the Kenyan Runners

The world’s top middle and long distance runners come from Kenya. Just like “our” flowers and “our raw materials”. To run in order to escape poverty in one’s own country and to achieve prosperity in capital-marked high-performance sport, to be exploited under inhumane conditions in one’s own country or to seek his luck as a refugee in Europe. It’s up to you.

Data

aka: Run For Your Life
Category: Documentary
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 90 Min
Release: 02.07.2021
Distribution: Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 217
Funding Film Institute: 284.147 €
Share of total production costs: 80 %
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Kenya, Vienna
Shooting time: May 2018 - April 2019
Days of shooting: 84
Completion: Fall 2019
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut

Credits

Production: Bonus Film GesmbH
Producer: Robert Winkler
Director: Barbara Gräftner
Script-concept: Barbara Gräftner
DOP: Robert Winkler, Patrick Waly
Editor: Sarah Bernhardt
Sound engineer: Dieter Draxler
Music: Heinrich Mader
Production manager: Robert Winkler