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MISHTO BY Tobias A. Seiffert

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WRITER/DIRECTOR Elisa Mishto (STATES OF MIND, IDFA 2007 / “ALMOST WINNER Learn to lose in 5 easy lessons” is a witty and
QUEENS OF THE RING, arte ’08) poetic documentary portrait of the western society and our most
CINEMATOGRAPHY Stefan Grandinetti (THE HOUSE IS BURNING, R: recondite fear:
Holger Ernst, Cannes ’06 / HOME FROM HOME, R: Sung Hyung Cho)
EDITOR Cristiano Travaglioli (IL DIVO, R: Paolo Sorrentino, Cannes ’08)
SHOOTING Spring 2009
THE FEAR OF LOSING.
SHOOTING FORMAT RED / HD Cam
SHOOTING LANGUAGE English / Original (Spanish, French, German)
ESTIMATED LENGTH app. 100mins.
ESTIMATED RATIO OF ARCHIVED MATERIAL app. 40 %
Writer/Director and box amateur Elisa Mishto’s story evolves around
ESTIMATED BUDGET EUR 800.000 the one and only place where to really learn to win and to lose: The box-
ing ring. The five most famous, unexpected and unforgettable defeats
ENVISAGED PROTAGONISTS Axel Schulz, Roberto Duran, George Fore- in boxing history, told from the original and unexploited point of view of
man, Mike Tyson, Georges Carpentier, their trainers, friends and families. the losers: Robert Duran, Axel Schulz, Mike Tyson, George Foreman,
ENVISAGED NARRATORS Teddy Atlas and James Ellroy. Georges Carpentier - the hard school of boxing as a philosophy and
ENVISAGED SHOOTING LOCATIONS USA, Tokio, Zaire, Paris, Panama metaphor for life itself. Uniquely commented by sports veteran Teddy
City, Frankfurt, Dortmund Atlas and boxing enthusiast James Ellroy.
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LEARN TO LOSE IN 5 EASY LESSONS

Lesson 1 “Get ready for a long fall” Lesson 2 “Sometimes giving everything is just too much”

GEORGE FOREMAN JACK DEMPSEY

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MOHAMMED ALI GEORGES CARPENTIER

The invincible giant who was defeated by the Black Movement hero and How the smaller but courageous Carpentier was nearly defeating the All
nearly lost himself. How to lose everything and get it back 20 years later. American hero Jack Dempsey when his luck abandoned him.

Lesson 3 “There’s a quitter in all of us” Lesson 4 “Take a walk on your wild side”

ROBERTO DURAN MIKE TYSON

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SUGAR RAY LEONARD JAMES DOUGLAS

The macho hero from South America who threw everything away by just The shocking knock out of the “meanest man alive”, in a time in which
letting his hands down. money and brutality meant everything.

Lesson 5 “Get over yourself”

AXEL SCHULZ
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A FILM BY
MICHEAL MOORER ELISA MISHTO
How the first German hero in boxing after 50 years of silence had to
come to term with his own vincibility.
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