Icarus (2017)
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
A lot of fun.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Everything I expected. The only surprise was that Netflix produced. They are leftist, marxist, anticapitalist in almost every content. This one is an exception.
The movie is pure propaganda trying to defame Russian athletes. They try hard to make doping a synonym of Russian athletes. Throughout the movie you will see the film makers trying to associate everything with the 'bogeyman' Putin. This movie is the peak of bias & partial film making as it solely focusses on Russia, they show how Chinese steroids were mostly sold in US & Europe but never conduct any interviews with US dope fiends like Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, Lance Armstrong or Serena Williams. Serena's doping results were leaked by some hackers which resulted in US pressuring doping agency to give a weak excuse that the banned performance enhancing substance used by Serena was for "medical" purposes. If you have money you could get whatever you want, US has proven that. Americans could justify killing millions in wars, doping atheletes of US, sexual exploitation of third world population by their "Human Rights Officers"...
Excellent documentary about a very important topic. A must watch! Both for sport lovers, truth lovers and people interested in politics and softpower.
I was thinking this would be about one guy's journey through the cycling world and uncovering some of the doping behind the whole Lance Armstrong thing. This goes way beyond that and turns into almost a live thriller. All that was missing was car chase scenes.One of the better documentaries I have seen in a long time.