Olga et ses hommes
Michaël Poirier Martin
Canada | 2011 | 11 min
Languages : French, English
Subtitle : English
Surrounded by her big-footed giants, Olga Hrycak – a small woman of 63 – devotes herself body and soul to turning a group of athletes into a basketball team. With her unique mixture of French and English, inexhaustible energy, and a good dose of irony, she is raised before our very eyes to the ranks of those immortalized by the documentary genre.
She may be pint-sized, but she certainly makes herself heard. She is demanding and hardly ever satisfied with the result. Surrounded by her big-footed giants, Olga Hrycak – a young woman of 63! – devotes herself body and soul to turning a group of athletes into a basketball team. Filmed with a great deal of affection during matches and training sessions, Olga evinces a formidable theatrical presence. With her unique mixture of French and English, inexhaustible energy and a good dose of irony, she is raised before our very eyes to the ranks of those immortalized by the documentary genre.
A cinema student at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Michaël Poirier Martin relies on this basketball trainer to achieve a difficult feat: Olga et ses hommes is not a film about basketball, nor about a person – however unusual she may be – but about the eternal striving for team spirit, mastery and excellence.
Carlo Chatrian
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