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Nelli Kim
197828 min 29 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Georges DufauxPierre Bernier
Production: Jacques Bobet
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in cooperation with Fitness and Amateur Sport.
A member of the Soviet Union's women's gymnastic team at the 1976 Olympic Games, Nelli Kim was seventeen when she won two gold medals for her superb performance on the horse vault and for the floor exercises. The slow-motion camera highlights the best moments of her performance. It also shows the person behind the athlete, and the nervousness that is generated by the presence of a new star, Nadia Comeneci of Romania.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure > Games and SportsGymnasticsOlympic and Commonwealth GamesPortraitsWomen
- Women - Portraits > Sports
Credits
- director
- Georges Dufaux
- Pierre Bernier
- producer
- Jacques Bobet
- camera
- Georges Dufaux
- sound
- Serge Beauchemin
- Claude Hazanavicius