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WATCH OVER ME

By Yuriy GAVRILENKO

Biography - Post-Production 2022

Michael is a Russian immigrant who is a national Slalom G champion in the US. He trains every day, follows healthy practices, works as a manual therapist, and visits his friends and family back home once a year. Michael is a happy man who believes he'll live 400 years, but he is also legally blind.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Biography, Sport, Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Director(s)
- Yuriy GAVRILENKO
- Synopsis
- This proiect aims to tell the story of a man, who managed to achieve incredible inner success through a lifelong taming of his disability. The idea of the proiect arose as one of the authors of the proiect visited a manual therapist whose life story seemed like a great premise for a documentary. There was a short TV report in New York on Michael as well as a number of articles in the press in recent years. Further research resulted in an invaluable contribution to Michael's story made by his family and friends: spouse, children, relatives, trainers, guides, and sports aficionados. While they take part in the narrative. A more recent change of the political climate added yet another edge to the storyline: the protagonist is forced to accept two conflicting states, the US and Russia, as his home.