CERN CineClub + Running Club + WIT community - Free to Run

Thursday 4 May 2017, 18:30 → 20:10 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

Free to Run

Directed by Pierre Morath

Switzerland, 2016, 99 min.

Today, all anybody needs to run is the determination and a pair of the right shoes. But just fifty years ago, running was viewed almost exclusively as the domain of elite male athletes who competed on tracks. With insight and propulsive energy, director Pierre Morath traces running's rise to the 1960s, examining how the liberation movements and newfound sense of personal freedom that defined the era took the sport out of the stadiums and onto the streets, and how legends like Steve Prefontaine, Fred Lebow, and Kathrine Switzer redefined running as a populist phenomenon.

Original version French; English subtitles

http://freetorun.ch/