OVERCOMING

Overcoming is a frank no-holds barred portrait of a world few people can imagine: a world in which even the toughest go under as the team strive to realize their ambition.

The CSC team includes: Ivan Basso, Carlos Sastre, Michele Bartoli, Jens Voigt, Bobby Julich, Jacob Piil, and the team’s medical advisor, Ole Kaare Føli. They are varied as a group is imaginable, and their leader Bjarne Riis’ task is to blend them into an undeniable force on the tour. Overcoming offers naked, and at times compassionate insights into the characters of the cyclists, and their support team.

“Overcoming is not only the best film about cycle sport since Jorgen Leth’s portrait of Paris-Roubaix, ‘A Sunday in Hell’ (1976), but also one of the best and most innovative documentary films in years” – www.dvdbeaver.com