Country: UK, USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 123'
In the 1970s, two Formula 1 drivers – Austrian Niki Lauda and British James Hunt – battle for world glory in a fierce yet complementary rivalry. Lauda, methodical and disciplined, faces Hunt, charismatic and impulsive, in a duel that transcends sport to become a clash of life philosophies. After a near-fatal accident, Lauda finds the strength to return to the track, turning the race for the title into a confrontation between reason and instinct, control and passion, fear and courage.
Biography
film director
Ron Howard
(Usa) He made his name with the TV series Happy Days, for which he received a Golden Globe in 1978, and debuted as a director in 1977 with Grand Theft Auto (1977), the start of a career which would award him Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Director for A Beautiful Mind (2001) and two nominations for Frost/Nixon (2008). He has directed comedies, fantasies, sci-fi movies, historical dramas, action movies, and westerns. His critically acclaimed films also include: Splash (1984), Backdraft (1991), Apollo 13 (1995), Ransom (1996), The Missing (2003), and Rush (2013). Earlier this year, his latest documentary, Jim Henson Idea Man, won the EMMY Award for Outstanding Documentary. The film made its World Premiere at TIFF in September 2024.
FILMOGRAFIA
Grand Theft Auto (Attenti a quella pazza Rolls Royce, 1977), Cotton Candy (tv, 1978), Skyward (tv, 1980), Through the Magic Pyramid (tv, 1981), Night Shift (Turno di notte, 1982), Splash (Splash, una sirena a Manhattan, 1984), Cocoon (Cocoon, l'energia dell'universo, 1985), No Greater Gift (tv, 1985), Gung Ho (id., 1986), Take Five (tv, 1987), Willow (id., 1988), Parenthood (Parenti, amici e tanti guai, 1989), Backdraft (Fuoco assassino, 1991), Far and Away (Cuori ribelli, 1992), The Paper (Cronisti d'assalto, 1994), Apollo 13 (id., 1995), Ransom (Ransom - Il riscatto, 1996), EdTv (id., 1999), The Grinch (Il Grinch, 2000), A Beautiful Mind (id., 2001), The Missing (id., 2003), Cinderella Man (Cinderella Man - Una ragione per lottare, 2005), The Da Vinci Code (Il codice da Vinci, 2006), Frost/Nixon (Frost/Nixon - Il duello, 2008), Angels & Demons (Angeli e demoni, 2009), The Dilemma (Il dilemma, 2011), Rush (id., 2013), Made in America (doc, 2013), In the Heart of the Sea (Heart of the Sea - Le origini di Moby Dick, 2015), Breakthrough (ep, serie tv, 2015), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (doc, 2016), Inferno (id., 2016), Genius (ep., serie tv, 2017), Solo: A Star Wars Story (id., 2018), Pavarotti (Pavarotti: Genio per sempre, doc, 2019), Rebuilding Paradise (doc, 2020), Hillbilly Elegy (Elegia americana, 2020), We Feed People (We Feed People - Uno chef in prima linea, doc, 2022), Thirteen Lives (Tredici vite, 2022), Jim Henson: Idea Man (doc, 2024), Eden (2024).
Declaration
film director
“What I think that’s most compelling, ultimately, and the thing to be celebrated about Rush more than anything else thematically is that these guys both exhibited rigorous honesty – and they lived by that. And neither denied who they were, there was zero hypocrisy, they were very different, but they were their own mavericks.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Ron Howard. SCREENPLAY: Peter Morgan. CINEMATROGRAPHY: Anthony Dod Mantle. FILM EDITING: Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mark Digby. COSTUME DESIGN: Julian Day. MUSIC: Hans Zimmer. SOUND: Markus Stemler. Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino, David Calder, Natalie Dormer, Stephen Mangan, Christian McKay, Alistair Petrie, Colin Stinton. PRODUCTION: Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Peter Morgan, Brian Oliver for Exclusive Media Group, Cross Creek Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Films, Working Title Films, Double Negative (DNEG).
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