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O Sport, You Are Peace!
Directed by
Yuri Ozerov
A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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White Vertigo
The Melbourne Rendezvous
Alain Mimoun
People, Hopes, Medals
The Grand Olympics
IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964
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Sensation of the Century
13 Days in France
Snows of Grenoble
The Olympics in Mexico
Sapporo Winter Olympics
Visions of Eight
White Rock
Games of the XXI Olympiad
Olympic Spirit
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Beyond All Barriers
Hand in Hand
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Atlanta’s Olympic Glory
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory
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Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory
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First
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912
Cast
Leonid BrezhnevSelf - Opens the Olympics
Nikolai OzerovSelf - Meets Guests at the Airport
Karel GottSelf - Stadium Spectator
Marina KordobanSelf - Young Hula Artist
Maria MosholiouSelf - High Priestess of the Olympic Flame
Ignatiy NovikovSelf - Chairman of the Organizing Committee Olympiad-80
Michael KillaninSelf - Chairman of the International Olympic Committee
Lyudmila KondratyevaSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Alan WellsSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Sebastian CoeSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Miruts YifterSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Viktor SaneevSelf - Carrying the Olympic Torch into the Stadium
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Sergei BelovSelf - Lights the Olympic Cup
Martinos SimitsekSelf - Vice-President of the International Olympic Academy
Thomas MunkeltSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Bohdan TomaszewskiSelf - Sportscaster
Bronislaw MalinowskiSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Pietro MenneaSelf - Olympic Champion-80
Richard HooperSelf - Participant of the Olympics-80 in the Marathon
Patrick HooperSelf - Participant of the Olympics-80 in the Marathon
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