NFB Collection
Wrestling
196127 min 47 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Michel BraultClaude JutraMarcel CarrièreClaude Fournier
Production: Jacques Bobet
A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlors where the warriors practice their art. Nothing escapes the probing camera as well-muscled tyros grapple, punch, squirm, roar and grimace, adding their own variations of showmanship to amuse and excite the crowd. In French with English subtitles.
Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure > Boxing, Wrestling and Martial Arts
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
- Physical Education > Outdoor Education
- Media Education > Popular Culture
- Social Studies > Social History
Credits
- director
- Michel Brault
- Claude Jutra
- Marcel Carrière
- Claude Fournier
- executive producer
- Jacques Bobet
- camera
- Michel Brault
- Claude Fournier
- Claude Jutra
- editing
- Michel Brault
- Claude Fournier
- Claude Jutra
- sound
- Marcel Carrière
- participation
- Édouard Carpentier
- narration
- Stanley Jackson
- artistic adviser
- Roland Barthes
Awards
- Diploma of HonourInternational Sports Film Festival
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Sports, Recreation, Physical EducationItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Honourable MentionAnnual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
- Silver Plaque - Second Prize - Category: DocumentaryElectronic, Nuclear and Teleradio cinematographic Review