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- The Game Of Their Lives
2002 - 83mins VeryMuchSo Productions & Passion Pictures Director: Daniel Gordon Executive Producer: John Battsek Directed by Dan Gordon 'The Game of their Lives' is about the 1966 North Korean football team who knocked tournament favorites, Italy, out of the World Cup finals in England. The film also provides a rare glimpse of life in modern day North Korea, particularly the lives of the surviving players. Nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Historical Documentary at the prestigious Grierson Awards and received Royal Television Society Award for Best Sports Documentary. ''The greatest story never told''' Asian Wall Street Journal, Jan 2002 ''A gem of a documentary'' The Sunday Times ''An amazing film'' The Guardian ''The brilliant Game of Their Lives, four years in the making and worth the hype that's begun to build around it�a great piece of history telling.'' The Observer ''...all efforts to contact any of Korea's 1966 heroes were rebuffed, until two enterprising Englishmen finally broke through the political barriers...the film crew were sitting in Pak's Pyongyang home at the end of a four-year search Gordon and Bonner were heartened to find seven surviving members of the 11-man team behind the greatest shock in World Cup history''. Calum MacLeod, The Independent, London, December 2001 ''Korea's Heroes of '66 alive and kicking. They arrived in England as unknown representatives of a shadowy communist regime...and left as the darlings of ever neutral football fan...'' Daniel King, Mail on Sunday, March 2002 ''Even for an American, it was enough (no lie) to bring tears to your eyes.'' CNN Sports Ilustrated May 2002 "I learned that football is not only about the winning. Wherever we go . . . .playing football can improve diplomatic relations and promote peace." Pak Do Ik interview in the film The Game of Their Lives, October 2001 ''A bona fide must see movie'' The Movie House
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