Cold War skis and Soviet-era sweat: the Olympics nobody remembers.
A picture depicting VIII. World Academic Winter Games held in Czechoslovakia in 1949. It shows in brief all the sports competitions in which students from all over the world competed.
Cinematography
Stunning 1949 winter landscapes captured in primitive color.
Director
Jiří Swirth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These games were part of communist bloc efforts to create alternatives to 'Western' Olympic events.
Director Jiří Swirth specialized in state-sponsored sports documentaries; most of his work remains archived in Prague.
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