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Die Stunde des Siegers

Original title: Chariots of Fire
  • 1981
  • 12
  • 2h 5m
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Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
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Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

  • Director
    • Hugh Hudson
  • Writer
    • Colin Welland
  • Stars
    • Ben Cross
    • Ian Charleson
    • Nicholas Farrell
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    66K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,105
    574
    • Director
      • Hugh Hudson
    • Writer
      • Colin Welland
    • Stars
      • Ben Cross
      • Ian Charleson
      • Nicholas Farrell
    • 305User reviews
    • 100Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 4 Oscars
      • 18 wins & 19 nominations total

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    Ben Cross and Nigel Havers in Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
    Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Daniel Gerroll, and Nigel Havers in Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
    Ben Cross, Nicholas Farrell, Daniel Gerroll, and Nigel Havers in Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
    Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Daniel Gerroll, and Nigel Havers in Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
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    Ben Cross and Ian Charleson in Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
    Ben Cross and Ian Charleson in Die Stunde des Siegers (1981)
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    Ben Cross
    Ben Cross
    • Harold Abrahams
    Ian Charleson
    Ian Charleson
    • Eric Liddell
    Nicholas Farrell
    Nicholas Farrell
    • Aubrey Montague
    Nigel Havers
    Nigel Havers
    • Lord Andrew Lindsay
    Daniel Gerroll
    Daniel Gerroll
    • Henry Stallard
    Ian Holm
    Ian Holm
    • Sam Mussabini
    John Gielgud
    John Gielgud
    • Master of Trinity
    • (as Sir John Gielgud)
    Lindsay Anderson
    Lindsay Anderson
    • Master of Caius
    Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport
    • Lord Birkenhead
    Cheryl Campbell
    Cheryl Campbell
    • Jennie Liddell
    Alice Krige
    Alice Krige
    • Sybil Gordon
    Dennis Christopher
    Dennis Christopher
    • Charles Paddock
    Brad Davis
    Brad Davis
    • Jackson Scholz
    Patrick Magee
    Patrick Magee
    • Lord Cadogan
    Peter Egan
    Peter Egan
    • Duke of Sutherland
    Struan Rodger
    Struan Rodger
    • Sandy McGrath
    David Yelland
    David Yelland
    • Prince of Wales
    Yves Beneyton
    Yves Beneyton
    • George Andre
    • Director
      • Hugh Hudson
    • Writer
      • Colin Welland
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    • Trivia
      Eric Liddell was born in China, where his parents were missionaries. He returned as a missionary. During the Japanese occupation of China, he was taken into the Japanese Weihsien Internment Camp, where he died from a brain tumor just before the camp was liberated.
    • Goofs
      In the 1920s, American flags had 48 stars, not 50.
    • Quotes

      Eric Liddell: I believe God made me for a purpose - but He also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

    • Alternate versions
      There is at least one slightly different version of the movie, issued in Europe on homevideo. The beginning is different - shorter - and introduces Harold Abrahams while playing cricket with his colleagues. The scene in the train station, where Monty meets Harold is absent, as well as the loading of the baggage in the taxi they share. We simply see Monty writing a letter to his parents, mentioning that "Harold is as intense as ever" (cut to the cricket scene, maybe 30 seconds long), and then continues with "I remember our first day... we shared a taxi together" (cut to the two students unloading their stuff from the car). This alternate version also have slightly different end credits, and does not mention Harold marrying Sybil. The differences are minor (the U.S. version provides a more shocking memento of WWI, when it shows crippled baggage handlers in the station); one of the reasons the cricket scene was dropped in favour of the station one was due to the distributor's worry that the American market would not understand it.
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: Stevie, Southern Comfort, Chariots of Fire, All the Marbles (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      He is an Englishman
      (1878) (uncredited)

      from "H.M.S. Pinafore"

      Music by Arthur Sullivan

      Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert

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    Sheer Beauty
    I was a student at Edinburgh University in 1981 and was actually lodging with one branch of Eric Liddell's family.

    My friends and I all went to see this movie repeatedly -- and I mean five, six, or seven paid entrances. Why?

    Personally, I don't think it had anything to do with the plot, character development, the music, or moral virtue. It was simply that the film was so utterly beautiful.

    The men were beautiful in a clean, non-glamorous way that we had never seen before. Not in British films, and certainly not in Hollywood movies.

    The social and educational expectations shared by all were beautiful. I know it is fashionable to decry the British class system, and in principle I agree with all the criticisms. But it also seems that erasing class-by-birth leaves little else but crass meritocracy and the sheer vulgarity of the uneducated masses. Abraham's fellow students at Cambridge and Liddell's at Edinburgh participated in a social and educational system not driven by concerns about jobs, and not pathetically challenged by students who saw themselves as consumers and professors as entertainers.

    Britain was beautiful. Of course some parts still are, but Nazi bombs, post-war architecture, and modern cars have destroyed much. This was a Britain where people at the time might have decried "Victorian" architecture, but we in 1981 were just coming to realize how great it was. And this was a Britain where, for good or ill, middle class people kept their houses tasteful, and working-class door-steps were white-stoned each week.

    In all this movie was a connection to the beautiful aspects of the British past. That past might never have existed in reality, but in 1981 we could just about touch it, above all in Edinburgh, spared by German bombs and still one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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    • phalsall
    • Feb 16, 2002

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    • Release date
      • May 7, 1982 (West Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Chariots of Fire
    • Filming locations
      • The Oval Sports Centre, Bebington, Merseyside, England, UK(Olympic Stadium)
    • Production companies
      • Enigma Productions
      • Allied Stars Ltd.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $5,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $58,972,904
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $68,907
      • Sep 27, 1981
    • Gross worldwide
      • $59,303,767
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 5 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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