Endurance | |
Director: | Leslie Woodhead |
Producer: | Terrence Malick Max Palevsky Edward R. Pressman |
Starring: | Haile Gebrselassie Shawananness Gebrselassie Yonas Zergaw Tedesse Haile Bekele Gebrselassie Alem Tellahun |
Music: | John Powell |
Cinematography: | Ivan Strasburg |
Editing: | Saar Klein Oral Norrie Ottey |
Studio: | FilmFour Helkon Filmverleih GmbH (as Helkon Media) La Junta Walt Disney Pictures |
Distributor: | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
Runtime: | 83 minutes |
Country: | United States United Kingdom Germany |
Language: | English |
Endurance is a 1998 docudrama film about the famous distance runner Haile Gebrselassie with Gebrselassie playing himself.[1]
It was written and directed by Leslie Woodhead, with Bud Greenspan supervising the competition sequences, and produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie features Gebrselassie's upbringing in Ethiopia and his subsequent triumph in the 10,000-meter track event in the Atlanta Olympic Games of 1996.
The movie was released on DVD on January 31, 2012.