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7.2/10   108 votes
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Writer:
Mischa Alexander (writer)
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Release Date:
6 April 2006 (Netherlands) more
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Cast

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Sipke Visser ... Jonge Taeke
Ida Poortinga ... Jonge Tjitske
Jochum ten Haaf ... Taeke
Ricky Koole ... Tjitske
Bastiaan Ragas ... Rintje
Péter Franke ... Oude Taeke (as Peter Franke)
Rick Nicolet ... Oude Tjitske
Harald Warmbrunn ... Oude Rintje
Pepijn Gunneweg ... Jonge Sake Wiarda
Lou Landré ... Oude Sake Wiarda
Freark Smink ... Pijlsma
Rients Gratama ... Rients
Riemer van der Velde ... Riemer
Heinze Bakker ... Heinze
Henk Kroes ... Henk
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Livet på en pinne (Sweden)
Sportsman of the Century (International: English title)
Sportsmann des Jahrhunderts (Germany)
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Runtime:
100 min
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Ennio Morricone was chosen to do the score. He wrote some themes, but continued working on other projects. When it came time to do the score, Morricone was tied up with other work and had to be replaced. more

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5 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
Far-fetched, 9 April 2006
5/10
Author: DudaSaurus from Netherlands

Although interesting in concept and shot beautifully, exactly why everybody goes nuts for a ten-year old winning a butt-numb-a-thon is a complete mystery to me. As this is crucial to the development of the story, everything that happens after that feels too far-fetched to get the reaction the filmmakers obviously had in mind.

Constructed in a flash-back story mode, the movie kicks off with the message that the main character has spent sixty years of his life devoted to the well-being of his fellow man. What follows is the story of a man who ignores the pleas for help of his father and wife to be, and as his motivations for spending week after week sitting on a pole are never quite explained properly, you loose interest in the main character rather than getting close to him.

Good cast, nice acting, but all in all too unbelievable to keep focused on for almost two hours.

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