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4 views 7 minutes ago. "Our mission is to really put you in the experience of running a race" Join us behind the scenes of Chariots of Fire with director Robert Hastie, movement directo...
- 2 min
- 7.2K
- Sheffield Theatres
Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath.
- (117)
- Hugh Hudson
- PG
- Ben Cross
OSCAR WINNER:Best PictureBest Original ScreenplayBest Costume DesignBest ScoreIn 1981, Chariots of Fire became the little movie that could... winning four Ac...
“Chariots of Fire” is one of the best films of recent years, a memory of a time when men still believed you could win a race if only you wanted to badly enough.
Chariots of Fire: Directed by Hugh Hudson. With Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross. Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
- (67K)
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Hugh Hudson
- 1982-04-09
Chariots of Fire retells the true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two men driven by a need to run. Both exhibit unbelievable speed, train religiously and share a passion to compete in the 1924 Olympics.
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CHARIOTS OF FIRE depicts the true story of two athletes who ran in the 1924 Olympics: Jewish Cambridge student Harold (Ben Cross), and Scottish missionary Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson). On Abrahams' first day at Cambridge, new students are encouraged to achieve for themselves and for those who were lost in World War I, which has just ended.