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THE ICE KING

By James ERSKINE

FILM MOVEMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, USA

Documentary - Completed 2017

The greatest ice skater of all time, John Curry transformed a dated sport into an art form and made history by becoming the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- James ERSKINE
- Synopsis
- John Curry transformed ice skating from a dated sport into an exalted art form. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal. Toxic yet charming; rebellious yet elitist; emotionally aloof yet spectacularly needy; ferociously ambitious yet bent on self-destruction, this is a man forever on the run: from his father's ghost, his country, and even his own self. Above all, an artist and an athlete whose body time and time again –sometimes against his will– becomes a political battlefield.