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Hyun-Sung Moon / South Korea / 2012 / 120 min / English subtitles
Thursday Oct 2 / 18.00 / STIGA Sports – Götgatan 105

The winner takes it all, or are there more important things than winning? Get to know the first ever post-war Unified Korea sports team, hastily formed to participate in the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in 1991. Following the North Korean mid-air bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 in 1987, a Summit was held between North and South Korea to defuse the extreme tension on the peninsula. The summit ended with the agreement to form a unified Korean sports team; and table tennis, being highly visible and world-class in both countries, was chosen as the symbolic unifier. Based on a true story the film recounts these dramatic events where especially two world-class players who had only ever met across the table as die-hard opponents must suddenly become true partners and teammates. And maybe even more…?