Rosebud / World premiere

Atletu (The Athlete)

  • Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew /
  • Ethiopia, USA, Germany /
  • 2009 /
  • 89 mins

Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas, Abba Waka Dessalegn

A beautifully-crafted, inspirational true-life tale of an African hero and a sporting legend.

Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew

Davey Frankel is an audiovisual artist based in New York and Berlin. He regularly collaborates with filmmakers, musicians, artists and educators, and created a visual accompaniment for The Crouching Tiger Concerto written by Tan Dun. He also worked as live visual artist for a symphony based upon the music from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Rasselas Lakew was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Much of his early life was spent as an athlete. Lakew attended university in the United States, where he became interested in filmmaking and decided to embark upon the story of Abebe Bikila.

2009 Archive

Image from Atletu

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