IGOR BAZALA (Official Trailer)
CELÝ FILM / Full Documentary:
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OCENENIA / Awards:
OFFICIAL SELECTION, Medzinárodný festival horských filmov MFHF 2021, Poprad, Slovensko
CENA SLOVENSKO VO FILME, Festival neprofesionálnych filmov HORYZONTY 2021, Trenčín, Slovensko
Odborná porota: “Film prináša silný príbeh emigranta Igora Bazalu, o ktorom by sa malo dozvedieť celé Slovensko. Oceňujeme výber protagonistu. Skrz Igorov príbeh sledujeme otlačok histórie nasej krajiny, ktorý začína v komunizme, prináša tému emigrácie, konfrontácie krajín. Príbeh Štefánikovho behu, ktorý Igor založil a teraz po 50 rokoch, keď má 82, sa chystá na svoj ďalší beh, s napätím vo filme sledujeme. Igorov entuziazmus dáva divákovi nadej, aby sme neprestavali na sebe pracovať a nevzdávali sa svojich snov.”
NIKDY SOM NEPRESTAL TRÉNOVAŤ, LEBO SOM VERIL, ŽE SA RAZ VRÁTIM.
PRÍBEH IGORA BAZALU
Má 82 rokov a stále behá ultramaratóny. V máji 1968 sám jeden založil. Štefánikov beh na oslavu generála Štefánika, 82 km z Ivanky na Bradlo. Potom však prišli v auguste Rusi a on musel ako emigrant v zahraničí čakať dlhých 22 rokov, aby ho mohol zabehnúť ešte aspoň raz. Vždy však veril, že sa to podarí. Dnes stojí na štarte už jeho ôsmej edície. Má 82 rokov a pred sebou dlhých 82 km.
Vo filme sú použité archívne zábery Slovenského filmového ústavu (Čierne dni, Ladislav Kudelka, 1968) a fotografie z archívu Ladislava Bielika. Fotografie Milana Rastislava Štefánika poskytol Slovenský národný archív.
ENGLISH:
I NEVER STOPPED TRAINING BECAUSE I BELIEVED I WOULD COME BACK ONE DAY.
On Saturday, May 4, 1968 at 6:00 a.m. Igor Bazala, a young editor of Czechoslovak sports, started an 82 km long run from Ivanka pri Dunaji to Bradlo to honor the memory of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik. He came to Bradlo completely exhausted at 2:30 p.m. This is how the Štefánik Run was created. However, the next editions of Štefánik Run was stopped for a long 22 years by the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia just a few weeks later. A promising pentathlete and young journalist emigrated and found his second home in Munich, Germany. In spite of everything, he never stopped believing that he would run Štefánik Run again one day. Today he is 82 years old and stand at the start of its eighth edition, exactly 50 years since its establishment in 1968.
THE DIRECTOR ABOUT IGOR BAZALA
IGOR BAZALA is now 84 years old and still runs 250 km every single month. He runs more than 3,000 km a year, has no joint problems and does not take any medication. His resting heart rate is 40 beats per minute. For the last three years, I have become very close with him in the production of a film about running, which he founded in 1968 to celebrate General Štefánik, and I learned a lot from him. At the end of 1968, after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the occupying forces, he had to leave his home. He finally found his second home in Munich. Even today, at his age, he regularly drives between Munich and Bratislava, and has 20 km of training routes in both cities, which have been running for almost
60 years. Despite the unfavorable fate, he still hoped that one day he would return to Bratislava and be able to run Štefánik Run (82 km from Ivanka to Bradlo) at least once more.
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